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lounge lizard
[ lounj liz-erd ]
noun
- a man who frequents bars, cafés, hotel lounges, etc., with or in search of women.
- a sponger; scrounger; parasite.
lounge lizard
noun
- informal.an idle frequenter of places where rich or prominent people gather
Word History and Origins
Origin of lounge lizard1
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.
At 85, he retains, as Daphne Merkin once wrote in The New York Times, a louche glamour, “like a lounge lizard who reads Flaubert.”
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.
“Louche, languid, laconic. A lounge lizard, like I’m a nuisance around women.”
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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