mouse potato

Now the computer industry is eager to create the mouse potato.

I had never heard the expression "mouse potato" .

Mouse potato n. The wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

In addition to Blairite (of Tony Blair, the English prime minister) and mouse potato (a consistent computer user), the dictionary includes new definitions for some of the old words.

A veteran hacker, mouse potato (the cyberspeak equivalent of a coach potato) and programmer, Mr. Carde launched a full-scale investigation of colleges he was interested in.

As couch potatoes become "mouse potatoes," as teenagers become "screenagers," the once lowly geek has become a cultural icon, studied by the fashionistas of Seventh Avenue and the Nasdaq watchers of Wall Street alike.

Philologically Fertile It may be a hippy-dippy attempt at spin by a bunch of Blairite mouse potatoes, but the editors of the New Oxford Dictionary of English are calling the edition to be published today the most important in years.