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lounge lizard en · NOUN

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Meanings

1. (qualifier:Jazz-age or flapper slang) An idler or pleasure-seeker; a person who spends considerable time loitering in bars and cocktail lounges.
   • 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. 2003 March 17, The New Yorker,:
   • I certainly don't advocate trying to copy some Las Vegas lounge lizard. 1985 July 13, net.singles:
   • There is at least a tinge of truth in that picture of Southern England as one enormous Brighton inhabited by lounge-lizards. 1937, George Orwell, chapter 7, in The Road to Wigan Pier:
   • With his panther glide and lounge-lizard eyes, Fishburne has become one of film's most mesmerizing stars. 1995 January 20, The Washington Post,:
2. A lounge singer, especially in Las Vegas.
   • The distorted phrasing feels almost hokey, in the vein of what we typically think of as Vegas lounge-lizard style, quick talk-sing phrasing punctuated by sustained soaring notes. 2014, Tara Murtha, Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe:
   • Ross had expected to find a hungover Vegas lounge lizard; instead, he witnessed a surprising demonstration of Frank [Sinatra] at the peak of his powers. 2015, James Kaplan, Sinatra: The Chairman:
   • 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. 2002 October 14, The New Yorker,:
   • Wayne Newton says he has one request: Never call an entertainer a "lounge lizard." 1999, Nevada Department of Economic Developmenthttps://books.google.com/books?id=PELZHXcIZoMC
3. (slang) A person who spends a lot of time sitting or lying down, often watching television, eating snacks or drinking alcohol.
   • Mort, who was still welded to the sofa, spoke without looking up as he needed to concentrate on rolling a cigarette. Lounge lizard? Couch potato? Perish the thought! 2012, Benny Goodman, Sweetest Moments Finest Hours, page 28:
   • Social television is a direct challenge to the idea that television is an anti-social, lower-class, lounge-lizard, couch surfing, domestic, household activity. 2010, Gerard Goggin, Global Mobile Media, page 95:
   • A lounge lizard is a phrase meaning that someone is lazy, like a lizard, because the person is sitting on a couch or armchair. [2017, Martina Nicolls, Similar but Different in the Animal Kingdom, page 382:
   • Watch only thirty to ninety minutes of TV a day, so people don't think you're a lounge lizard, a couch potato, or a pet rock. 1994, Marguerite Kelly, Marguerite Kelly's Family Almanac, page 216:

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Synonyms

do-naught · slug · lounge lizard · good-for-nothing · sluggard · goof-off · shirker · skiver · slob · lazybones · dogfucker · sofa spud · lie-abed · sluggabed · lollygagger · slugabug · get-nothing · idler · truant · dawdler · laggard · waster · lallygag · wastrel · dosser · loiter-sack · lidderon · ragabash · slacker · tarrier · deadbeat · loafer · footler · goldbricker · lounger · poop · do-nothing · faineant · wasteman · ne'er-do-well · slow belly · morepork · flaneur · couch potato · layabout · bum · lazy ass · couch potato · idleton · slug-a-bed · lazy louse · slugabed

Translations (2)

pl lew salonowy (An idler or pleasure-seeker; a person who spends considerable time loitering in bars and cocktail lounges.) · de Salonlöwe (An idler or pleasure-seeker; a person who spends considerable time loitering in bars and cocktail lounges.)