room temperature IQ

A form of room-temperature IQ — A below average IQ.

Meanings

nounroom temperature IQ (plural room temperature IQs)

plural room temperature IQs

  1. alternativeAlternative form of room-temperature IQ.

    “There used to be a Sergeant Henkels in Central Cell Room,” Pekach volunteered. “If it's the same guy, he has a room temperature IQ.”

    1993, W. E. B. Griffin, The Assassin, Jove Books, →ISBN
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    Lurking at the bottom, driving the whole godforsaken thing, is the possibility that the room temperature IQ that informs every groove of Neurotica may very well be the real thing.

    1987 July, John Leland, “Spins”, in Spin

    Anyone with a room temperature IQ and a computer could buy and sell stocks in a frenzy of greed, buy a stock and sell it a few minutes later, buy it again and sell it again as the stock gained a point or lost a point.

    2001, Robert Lichello, How to Make $1,000,000 in the Stock Market Automatically, Signet, →ISBN
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