lounge lizard
Noun
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Noun
lounge lizard (plural lounge lizards)
- (Jazz-age or flapper slang) An idler or pleasure-seeker; a person who spends considerable time loitering in bars and cocktail lounges.
- 1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, ch. 7,
- There is at least a tinge of truth in that picture of Southern England as one enormous Brighton inhabited by lounge-lizards.
- 1985, net.singles, 13 Jul.,
- I certainly don't advocate trying to copy some Las Vegas lounge lizard.
- 1995, The Washington Post, 20 Jan.,
- With his panther glide and lounge-lizard eyes, Fishburne has become one of film's most mesmerizing stars.
- 2002, The New Yorker, 14 Oct.,
- A second later, funky beats and distorted guitars kicked in, and then quirky hip-hop-style vocals with a country-and-Western lounge-lizard overlay.
- 2003, The New Yorker, 17 Mar.,
- Someone should pull together a major movie for this actor, because he’s great at playing heels with a vagrant streak of decency—say, a lounge lizard with feelings, an uncomfortably adulterous husband.
- 1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, ch. 7,
- (slang) A person who spends a lot of time sitting or lying down, often watching television, eating snacks or drinking alcohol.
- s person who spends a lot of time sitting or lying down See also Thesaurus:idler.
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