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.

Exact synonyms: Lizard
Generic synonyms: Gigolo

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

loun
lound
lounded
lounder
loundered
lounders
lounding
lounds
louned
lounge
lounge-lizard
lounge about
lounge around
lounge car
lounge chair
lounge lizard (current term)
lounge lizards
lounge music
lounge suit
loungecore
lounged
loungelike
lounger
loungeroom
loungerooms
loungers
lounges
loungewear
loungewears
loungey

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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