channel flicker

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A remote control.

   • 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.
2. 2

   A person who compulsively watches excessive amounts of television.

   • 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.

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