lounge lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lounge lizards
form: lounge-lizard
Senses: examples: text: There is at least a tinge of truth in that picture of Southern England as one enormous Brighton inhabited by lounge-lizards.
ref: 1937, George Orwell, chapter 7, in The Road to Wigan Pier:
text: I certainly don't advocate trying to copy some Las Vegas lounge lizard.
ref: 1985 July 13, net.singles:
text: With his panther glide and lounge-lizard eyes, Fishburne has become one of film's most mesmerizing stars.
ref: 1995 January 20, The Washington Post,:
text: 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.
ref: 2003 March 17, The New Yorker,:
qualifier: Jazz-age or flapper slang
glosses: An idler or pleasure-seeker; a person who spends considerable time loitering in bars and cocktail lounges.
examples: text: Wayne Newton says he has one request: Never call an entertainer a "lounge lizard."
ref: 1999, Nevada Department of Economic Developmenthttps://books.google.com/books?id=PELZHXcIZoMC
text: 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.
ref: 2002 October 14, The New Yorker,:
text: 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.
ref: 2014, Tara Murtha, Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe:
text: 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.
ref: 2015, James Kaplan, Sinatra: The Chairman:
glosses: A lounge singer, especially in Las Vegas.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1994, Marguerite Kelly, Marguerite Kelly's Family Almanac, page 216:
text: Social television is a direct challenge to the idea that television is an anti-social, lower-class, lounge-lizard, couch surfing, domestic, household activity.
ref: 2010, Gerard Goggin, Global Mobile Media, page 95:
text: 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!
ref: 2012, Benny Goodman, Sweetest Moments Finest Hours, page 28:
text: A lounge lizard is a phrase meaning that someone is lazy, like a lizard, because the person is sitting on a couch or armchair.
ref: [2017, Martina Nicolls, Similar but Different in the Animal Kingdom, page 382:
synonyms: word: couch potato
word: bum
word: couch potato
word: dawdler
word: deadbeat
word: dogfucker
word: do-naught
word: do-nothing
word: dosser
word: idler
word: idleton
word: faineant
word: flaneur
word: footler
word: get-nothing
word: goldbricker
word: goof-off
word: lallygag
word: lollygagger
word: laggard
word: layabout
word: lazy ass
word: lazybones
word: lazy louse
word: lidderon
word: lie-abed
word: loafer
word: loiter-sack
word: lounge lizard
word: lounger
word: morepork
word: poop
word: ragabash
word: shirker
word: slacker
word: slow belly
word: slugabed
word: slug-a-bed
word: slugabug
word: sluggabed
word: sluggard
word: sofa spud
word: tarrier
word: truant
glosses: A person who spends a lot of time sitting or lying down, often watching television, eating snacks or drinking alcohol.