sofa-surf
verb [ I ] mainly UK informal uk/ˈsəʊ.fəˌsɜːf/ us/ˈsoʊ.fəˌsɝːf/
沙发冲浪(因为没有住所而到多个朋友或亲戚家寄宿,比如睡在别人家的沙发上)
to stay with a series of different friends or relatives, sleeping somewhere temporary such as a sofa, because you do not have your own place to live
We can give you advice on what to do if you are homeless and are sofa-surfing. 如果你无家可归,正在沙发冲浪,我们可以给你一些建议。
See: sofa-surfing
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- He sofa-surfed for a while after being kicked out on Christmas Day.
- She says about 70 percent of the homeless young people on the charity's records have sofa-surfed before running out of options.
- I’m homeless and am sofa-surfing.
- One in five young people, aged 16 to 25, have sofa surfed in the past year because they had nowhere else to go.