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

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

For proof you need only visit Café Carlyle, where Buster Poindexter, the seedily attired, punkish lounge lizard, now 65, has been playing a two-week engagement.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2015

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

It grimaces like Peer Gynt and winks like a lounge lizard, a cake eater.

From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben

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