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 returned with his band five months after his first extended engagement there.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 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

You ride or golf or worse than waste your time on some lounge lizard, dancing till time to come home to dress for dinner.

From The Call of the Canyon by Grey, Zane

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