English

Alternative forms

• lounge-lizard

Noun

lounge lizard ‎(plural lounge lizards)

1. (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.