couch surf
See also: couch-surf
English
Alternative forms
- couch-surf, couchsurf
Verb
couch surf (third-person singular simple present couch surfs, present participle couch surfing, simple past and past participle couch surfed)
- To use temporary overnight accommodations in one or more private residences, especially without cash payment.
- 1997, James Di Salvio; E. P. Bergen (lyrics and music), “Couch Surfer”, in Glee, performed by Bran Van 3000:
- Move into your house, I'm a couch surfer, Can I crash at your place again? Just one more night? I'm surfing, couch surfing
- 2004, Elizabeth Peavey, Maine & me: ten years of Down East adventures, page 13:
- I couch-surfed in my Portland friends' guest rooms (I had a key ring that looked like it belonged to a janitor) while I tried to reinvent myself.
- 2008, Robert Hartmann McNamara, Homelessness in America, volume 1, page 158:
- The term homeless youth can include shelter-based or street-based youth, as well as young people couch-surfing (doubled-up with friends or lovers).
- 2023 January 13, SPIN, volume 25, number 1, page 26:
- "Couch-surfing allows musicians who couldn't tour before to get out and get their music heard," Fenton says. It also beats sleeping in a van.
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Synonyms
- sofa surf
Coordinate terms
- bed surf
- sexsurfing
Derived terms
- couch surfer
- couch surfing