channel flicker
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.09 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
A person who compulsively watches excessive amounts of television.
Example Sentences
- "Use the channel flicker if TV shows or commercials are too suggestive or show too much skin."
- "The day an unemployed iron worker can lay in his barcolounger with a Foster’s in one hand and a channel flicker in the other and do it with Claudia Schiffer for $19.95, it’s going to make crack look like Sanka."
- "She's sitting there like Captain Pike from "Star Trek." She had a channel flicker. She's watching baggage from other airports, for Christ's sake."
- "With the click of the remote-control button, Victor Sienna made the televised face of Rupert Sawyer disappear. “There won’t be a next time,” he said, tossing the channel flicker onto the coffee table."
- "Aimee heaved herself up from the chair, dropping the channel flicker as she rose."
- "He became a channel-flicker par excellence, juggling images in his head, sandbags against loneliness, which only succeeded in keeping him awake, since his mind, unlike the television, could not be switched off at will."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
channel flickers (plural)