lounge lizard

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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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Recent Examples of lounge lizard Reading is not simply the lazy pleasure of a lounge lizard. Big Think, 19 Mar. 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 Tiffany Townsend and Bernardo Bermudez bring rich-toned gusto to Idleness and Pleasure, here a couple of louche lounge lizards. Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023 Repo Man, which marked a rare early film appearance by Morris — briefly seen performing with a lounge lizard version of the Circle Jerks in mismatched tuxedos. Steve Appleford, SPIN, 27 July 2022 This is a look for a lounge lizard, after all. Aleks Cvetkovic, Robb Report, 7 July 2021 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 Some of us experience guilt or stress about that kind of thing, but not your faithful lounge lizard. Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 16 Dec. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lounge lizard
Noun
  • Every dude in this particular person's past had money.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
  • But Jon was always just a coolass dude.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At the time of her birth, her father, Albert, an itinerant merchant and womanizer, was absent and her parents unmarried.
    Leslie Camhi, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The author was a womanizer-in-training who was rolling with this MTV star named Mystery.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • After the surprise from her beau, the Aces star held her trophy and posed for photos with Engelbert and her family.
    Natasha Dye, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
  • McDade's beau lifted heavy weights in high school to do shot put, and was a D1 athlete at Penn State.
    David Oliver, USA Today, 20 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This cal is every candle lover’s dream.
    Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 29 Sep. 2025
  • National Coffee Day is the perfect time buy a gift for the coffee lover in your life.
    Christopher Murray may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The original dandy—most famously embodied by figures like Beau Brummell in 18th-century Britain—was a man whose primary purpose was to stand out by being impeccably groomed and dressed.
    Ty Gaskins, Vogue, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Buy the Book From Beau Brummell to Emily Adams Bode, The Men’s Fashion Book documents over 200 years of fashion history by spotlighting the people and brands that have shaped the world of menswear.
    WSJ, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
Noun
  • Recruiting serious jazz players instead of the usual.A. studio cats, Mitchell spent several years discarding the daily-journal lyric writing and folkish melodies of her early work and wandering into more musically lyrically abstract territory on albums like Mingus and Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Entertainment was headlined by DJ Don Juan and emceed by Charles Jr. Chidi Ohaeri.
    Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Also, why is arthouse pretty boy Louis Garrel, who portrays the leader of a resistance group known as Breakwalls (That’s seriously their name.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
  • At Hartford Stage, Rafael Jordan plays Sterling as a smooth-talking pretty boy who seems unwilling to get his hands dirty.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Two seasons ago, Detroit opted to throw him to the wolves, and his reputation started to pay the price.
    The Athletic NHL, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Wandering among the half naked nymphs and leering wolves and buff mermen poking their lovely wet heads out of glassy forest pools, their eyes dark with wanting to drag her down to oblivion.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025

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“Lounge lizard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lounge%20lizard. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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