English
Noun
lounge lizard
#(Jazz-age or flapper slang) an idler or pleasure-seeker; a person who spends a lot of time hanging around bars and cocktail lounges
Quotations
1937: "...there is at least a tinge of truth in that picture of Southern England as one enormous Brighton inhabited by lounge-lizards." (George Orwell, in The Road to Wigan Pier, 1937, Chapter 7, at page 102).
1985: I certainly don't advocate trying to copy some Las Vegas lounge lizard. — net.singles, 13 Jul 1985
1995: With his panther glide and lounge-lizard eyes, Fishburne has become one of film's most mesmerizing stars. — The Washington Post, 20 Jan 1995
2002: 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 — The New Yorker, 14 Oct 2002
2003: Someone should pull together a major movie for this actor, because heâ��s great at playing heels with a vagrant streak of decencyâ��say, a lounge lizard with feelings, an uncomfortably adulterous husband. — The New Yorker, 17 Mar 2003
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