Examples of use of mouse potato
1. The dictionary has also anointed the phrase ‘mouse potato’, to refer to someone who is glued to the computer screen, akin to the earlier ‘couch potato’, who was glued to the television screen.
2. The mouse potato (who spends as much time on the computer as his/her 1''0s counterpart did on the couch), the himbo (attractive, vacuous – and male) and the excessively emotional drama queen were among 100 new words added to the 2006 update of America‘s best–selling dictionary, the Merriam–Webster Collegiate Dictionary.
3. Along with defining an intensive computer user as a mouse potato‘‘ (a popular twist on the late 1''0‘s couch potato‘‘ entry), they have given formal definition to one of the Internet‘s most recognizable names. Google is definitely a verb,‘‘ said Dan Reynolds, a 35–year–old salesman at YES Computers in Northampton. Google has become like a secondary brain for a lot of people.