lounge lizard

[lounj liz-erd]

noun

Older Slang.

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

2. a sponger; scrounger; parasite.

lounge lizard

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of lounge lizard¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

I used all kinds of lounge lizards, alley cats, and I made a substitute father figure in Papa Croc, who was this Don King character.

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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.”

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Don’t fall for the slick, dandified cake eater — the unpolished gold of a real man is worth more than the gloss of a lounge lizard.

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“Louche, languid, laconic. A lounge lizard, like I’m a nuisance around women.”

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Wearing a crisp white shirt, skinny black tie and tailored black suit, he speaks with the languid, affected delivery of a practiced lounge lizard.

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Related Words

• seducer