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channel-surf
verb
To watch a series of television stations for a short time each, by repeated use of a remote control
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But the huge, mind-bending, game-changing advantage of this model is that you can channel-surf movies just the way you channel-surf TV.
And when it comes to metaphors he tends to channel-surf.
It is now common to channel-surf often, even during programs.
But when you channel-surf, you invariably pause at QVC, the TV shopping network.
That tour's guiding metaphor was television; Bono used a remote control to channel-surf on the show's giant screens.
He knew how to log on to a computer and to channel-surf with a television remote control.
You can channel-surf, turn pages, eat and do anything else requiring hands, all while remaining cozily swaddled.
In his always-chilly dorm room at the University of Maine, Gary Clegg would channel-surf on the couch, zippered into his sleeping bag.
Still void of story material, I flop down on the Corbusier and use my Sony plasma remote to channel-surf through CNBC, CNN and Fox.
The plethora of law-and-order shows on television leave her cold, prompting her to channel-surf to a sporting event.
Indeed, the Turner research highlighted one of the oddities of online TV viewing: viewers often do not watch an entire episode, just as they channel-surf while on the couch.
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