lounge lizard

noun

Definition of lounge lizardnext
1
as in dude
a man extremely interested in his clothing and personal appearance a slick lounge lizard in a silk suit

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2
as in womanizer
a man given to seducing women a balding, paunchy lounge lizard whose days and nights of partying were behind him

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Recent Examples of lounge lizard The drag king Murray Hill has the look of a mustachioed Atlantic City lounge lizard and the shticky comic delivery of Don Rickles. — Dan Stahl, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026 Playing the lounge lizards, slotwads, goombahs and corrup-tos, the supporting cast members are terrific. — Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 22 Nov. 2025 With acid jazz tracks filled with brass horns and lounge lizard rhythm, many found the score counterintuitive to the game’s decidedly epic moment-to-moment action. — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2024 He got involved in the music business, sometimes playing lounge lizard takes on Pink Floyd for hotel bars, sometimes playing in bands. — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023 Don’t fall for the slick, dandified cake eater — the unpolished gold of a real man is worth more than the gloss of a lounge lizard. — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lounge lizard
  1. dude
  2. womanizer
  3. beau
  4. lover
  5. Beau Brummell
  6. Don Juan
  7. pretty boy
  8. wolf
Noun
  • The game’s intro devolved into a Saw-esque monologue, then Fallon made a dude drink pond water.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The data dudes have created their place, and value, in every sport, and percentages direct possessions, matchups and everything else.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of dude
Noun
  • The piece follows the fall of the notorious libertine, a reckless womanizer, ignoring many supernatural warnings until a ghostly stone attempts to have its way with his soul.
    — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The serial womanizer, 29, who’s appeared on Too Hot to Handle and Perfect Match, found his forever love in Amber Mozo on Wednesday’s finale of Netflix’s Let’s Marry Harry.
    — Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of womanizer
Noun
  • The Tennessee native married her Teen Mom costar and longtime beau Taylor McKinney in October 2016.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Still, Kardashian will reportedly continue showing up for her new beau.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of beau
Noun
  • Overton, however, claimed that both informants were lying — and that the semen found on the comforter was planted on the scene by a spurned ex-lover with connections to the police department.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The professionalization worked, but at the expense of the site’s internal culture, Cooke argues, as generous eccentrics were displaced by neurotic lovers of rules.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of lover
Noun
  • In London, Parks captures Ali against the shadow of a Regency-era painting of a Beau Brummell-style dandy.
    — Tonya Blazio-Licorish, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Much like the advice of Beau Brummell, a close friend of the future King George IV who in the 19th century helped define Royal Ascot’s dress code.
    — Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 19 June 2026
Definition of Beau Brummell
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  • The painting comes from a series Brown made between 2016 and 2018 looking at 19th-century Romantic painting, particularly Delacroix’s The Shipwreck of Don Juan (1840) and Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa (1818–19).
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Despite his rakish lifestyle, Don Juan falls in love with innocent Adriana, infuriating the envious Lucrezia Borgia (Estelle Taylor), who plots to ruin the young lovers’ nascent romance.
    — Air Mail, Air Mail, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of Don Juan
Noun
  • Tom Rhys Harries seethes as Matt Hagen, a pretty boy who loses his looks only to regain them from an experimental procedure that makes a jumble of his psyche.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2026
  • In summer as well as in winter, beneath a beach umbrella just as much as under the cold carapace of a Toronto sky in December, rap’s pretty boy little brother is sort of always talking about the many grievances he’s picked up along the way.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of pretty boy
Noun
  • It’s best visited in the winter and early spring (mid-December through early April) when the elk and wolves are most active.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Walk past a guard wolf to see a potion brewing, a spidery scenario in the yard, gothic graves, a skeletal spot in one corner and plenty of gore on the porch.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
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“Lounge lizard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lounge%20lizard. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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