lounge lizard
Americannoun
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a man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
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a sponger; scrounger; parasite.
noun
Etymology
Origin of lounge lizard
First recorded in 1910–15
Example Sentences
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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
This time, instead of a couple of machines, Ocean brings a band with him, all in suits, whose bearded, long-haired guitarist looks like a lounge lizard but plays like a dream.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2013
I cannot say that I have had much opportunity to study the person called here a "lounge lizard."
From Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer by MacQuarrie, Hector
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