Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To watch a number of different television stations in rapid succession by using a remote control.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To watch a series of
television stations for a short time each, by repeated use of aremote control
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb switch channels, on television
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Examples
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In 1974, USC was down 24-0 to the defending national champs with 10 seconds remaining in the first half — a good time for viewers to channel-surf away.
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"By the one-year anniversary, it was just chilling - you couldn't channel-surf without hitting four or five of these things," adds Brooklyn native Heather Incubo, her eyes tearing up.
David Kronke: TV Networks Revisiting the Revisiting of 9/11 David Kronke 2011
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If you channel-surf with any regularity, you have almost certainly noticed that shows offering absurdly close-up views of nature, and especially of animals, have been popping up everywhere lately.
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They would be able to channel-surf right on the touch screen, with no need for a remote.
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If you channel-surf with any regularity, you have almost certainly noticed that shows offering absurdly close-up views of nature, and especially of animals, have been popping up everywhere lately.
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As most TV viewers channel-surf without many options this summer, science fiction is aiming to fill a void.
The Short List | A selected guide to this week's arts and entertainment 2010
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It is amazing, some of the things you find when you channel-surf late at night.
I told you I recognized that rock... littlemissattitude 2009
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It is amazing, some of the things you find when you channel-surf late at night.
Archive 2009-12-01 littlemissattitude 2009
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It's no wonder, then, that at the end of a hard day, most adults just want to collapse on the sofa and channel-surf.
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Pausing a channel-surf session, I watched CNN's former chunky ex-junkie blowhard Glenn Beck's dissertation on Wall Street's collapse.
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