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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of lounge lizard1

First recorded in 1910–15
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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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