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Definition of Lounge lizard
1. Noun. A man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him.
Definition of Lounge lizard
1. Noun. (context: Jazz-age or flapper slang) An idler or pleasure-seeker; a person who spends considerable time loitering in bars and cocktail lounges. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lounge Lizard
Literary usage of Lounge lizard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Words Self-defined by Charles Alphonso Smith (1919)
"LOUNGE-LIZARD It will occur to him that he wasn't vexed then by the task of trying
to keep his trousers from bagging at the knees, a thing which no human ..."
2. The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the by Henry Louis Mencken (1921)
"... loan-shark, nature-faker, sland-patter, lounge-lizard, hash-foundry, buzz-wagon,
has-been, end- scat-hog, shoot-the-chutes and grape-juice diplomacy. ..."
3. Better Speech: A Textbook of Speech Training for Secondary Schools by Charles Henry Woolbert, Andrew Thomas Weaver (1922)
"Make a list of the three most live tendencies of: (a) A man sentenced to jail (f)
A "lounge lizard" (b) A sailor on shore leave (g) An actor (c) An arctic ..."
4. Transactions of the Commonwealth Club of California by Commonwealth Club of California (1922)
""6. Expensive gowning of women; exerts a bad influence. "7. Scenes showing
effeminate men, causing growing boys to ape the 'lounge-lizard' variety. ..."
5. Over Here: Impressions of America by Hector MacQuarrie (1918)
"I cannot say that I have had much opportunity to study the person called here
a " lounge lizard." Like his brother in England, he at once joined up and is ..."
6. Womanhood and Marriage: Fifty-three Lessons in Sex Hygiene Exclusively for Women by Bernarr Macfadden (1918)
"... not a lounge lizard ; not a perambulating stock-ticker; not an animated booze
receptacle; not a whited sepulchre of disease and corruption ; but a man ..."
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