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 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
  • In decades past, some greasy label dude would probably tell them to go write a real hit next.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Compared to a woman who spends her days toiling to defend some of America’s most underserved, Lee’s a man who wrote a puff piece about some rich, white dude.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 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
  • Still, Kardashian will reportedly continue showing up for her new beau.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Since then, Kardashian has been a big supporter of her beau’s career.
    — Erin Wisti, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of beau
Noun
  • Art lovers will appreciate the prewar proportions of this Park Avenue duplex.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Cowritten by the band and Brian Eno, the track explores a relationship between lovers struggling to maintain their faith in each other.
    — Alicia Urrea, Billboard, 15 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
Noun
  • 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
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  • 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
  • Transformation scenes can be unintentionally laughable, and no one has fully figured out how to make a wolf-human hybrid look less like a fall-season impulse buy at Home Depot and more like a terrifically terrifying beast.
    — Eve Batey, Vanity Fair, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Some public school advocates have called the tax credit as a wolf in sheep’s clothing aimed at further privatizing public education.
    — Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of wolf

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“Lounge lizard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lounge%20lizard. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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