couch surf

present singular third person couch surfs · participle present couch surfing · participle past couch surfed · past couch surfed · alternative couch-surf · alternative couchsurf

1. informalintransitiveTo use temporary overnight accommodations in one or more private residences, especially without cash payment.

   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

   1997, James Di Salvio, E. P. Bergen, “Couch Surfer”, in Glee, performed by Bran Van 3000

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   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.

   2004, Elizabeth Peavey, Maine & me: ten years of Down East adventures, page 13

   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).

   2008, Robert Hartmann McNamara, Homelessness in America, volume 1, page 158

   "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.

   2009 January, SPIN, volume 25, number 1, page 26

   Synonyms: bed surf, sofa surf