lounge lizard

American  

[lounj liz-erd] / ˈlaʊndʒ ˌlɪz ərd /

noun

Older Slang.

1. a man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.

2. a sponger; scrounger; parasite.

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lounge lizard British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of lounge lizard

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

At 85, he retains, as Daphne Merkin once wrote in The New York Times, a louche glamour, “like a lounge lizard who reads Flaubert.”

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2022

After the Dolls’ breakup, Sylvain embarked on a moderately successful solo career while Thunders and Nolan formed the Heartbreakers and Johansen reinvented himself as the arch lounge lizard Buster Poindexter.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2021

In another performer’s hands, the joke might have been a mockery of every Holiday Inn lounge lizard.

From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 2016

Helpless Victim makes us think of Tyler, the Creator if he was a fortysomething lounge lizard from Rhyl.

From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2011

He was afraid mother would smother him with money and insist on his being a proper lounge lizard again, and so he would gradually drop back into his old uselessness.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney

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