lounge lizard

[ lounj-liz-erd ]
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nounOlder Slang.
  1. a man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.

  2. a sponger; scrounger; parasite.

Origin of lounge lizard

1
First recorded in 1910–15

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How to use lounge lizard in a sentence

  • I figured it out as Bill, crooning lounge-lizard style, went from jumping jacks to pushups.

    "Dave's Whipping Boy" | Paul Shaffer | October 2, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • You ride or golf or worse than waste your time on some lounge lizard, dancing till time to come home to dress for dinner.

  • But the call of New York, of the "lounge lizard's" ease and unhealthy excitement had won already, it seemed.

    The Thing from the Lake | Eleanor M. Ingram
  • I cannot say that I have had much opportunity to study the person called here a "lounge lizard."

    Over Here | Hector MacQuarrie

British Dictionary definitions for lounge lizard

lounge lizard

noun
  1. informal an idle frequenter of places where rich or prominent people gather

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