lizard

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see also: Lizard

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈlɪz.əd/
• (America) IPA: /ˈlɪz.ɚd/

Noun

lizard (plural lizards)

1. Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.
2. (chiefly, in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
   • 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Proof”, The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.

     Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby / Silver foil to trim your wedding gown

3. (colloquial) An unctuous person.
4. (colloquial) A coward.
5. (rock paper scissors) A hand forming a "D" shape with the tips of the thumb and index finger touching (a handshape resembling a lizard), that beats paper and Spock and loses to rock and scissors in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
6. (in compounds) A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.

   lounge lizard; lot lizard; beach lizard; truck stop lizard

Translations

• French: lézard
• German: Eidechse small, Echse
• Italian: lucertola
• Portuguese: lagarto
• Russian: я́щерица
• Spanish: lagarto, lagartija small

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Lizard

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Proper noun

1. A peninsula in southern Cornwall.

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