channel flicker

Definitions

1. A remote control.
2. A person who compulsively watches excessive amounts of television.

Examples

“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.”

“I begin⟳ to wonder⟳ what those difficulties were. The problem of the remote-control channel flicker is that he’s never quite sure what the topic is when his flicking stops.”

“We realize⟳ that Morris is a skilled Alzheimer’s companion, in his way. His way consists of the sharing of all-day television. He watches everything, anything, is a habitual channel flicker, and keeps up a steady dialogue with the programming that is really a way of talking to his wife.”

“I settled back and stared at the screen too. I’m a bit of a channel flicker myself; I can watch⟳ four at once, no problem.”

“Appearing on Midlands Weekend is like⟳ offering yourself up as a sacrifice to every bored, casually spiteful channel flicker in the Midlands. They're going to kill⟳ me.”

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