Meaning of lounge lizard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An idler or pleasure-seeker; a person who spends considerable time loitering in bars and cocktail lounges.
2. A lounge singer, especially in Las Vegas.
3. A person who spends a lot of time sitting or lying down, often watching television, eating snacks or drinking alcohol.
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Examples

“There is at least a tinge of truth in that picture of Southern England as one enormous Brighton inhabited by lounge-lizards.”

“I certainly don't advocate trying to copy some Las Vegas lounge lizard.”

“With his panther glide and lounge-lizard eyes, Fishburne has become one of film's most mesmerizing stars.”

“Someone should pull together a major movie for this actor, because he’s great at playing heels with a vagrant streak of decency—say, a lounge lizard with feelings, an uncomfortably adulterous husband.”

“Wayne Newton says he has one request: Never call an entertainer a "lounge lizard."”

“A second later, funky beats and distorted guitars kicked in, and then quirky hip-hop-style vocals with a country-and-Western lounge-lizard overlay.”

“The distorted phrasing feels almost hokey, in the vein of what we typically think of as Vegas lounge-lizard style, quick talk-sing phrasing punctuated by sustained soaring notes.”

“Ross had expected to find a hungover Vegas lounge lizard; instead, he witnessed a surprising demonstration of Frank [Sinatra] at the peak of his powers.”

“Watch only thirty to ninety minutes of TV a day, so people don't think you're a lounge lizard, a couch potato, or a pet rock.”

“Social television is a direct challenge to the idea that television is an anti-social, lower-class, lounge-lizard, couch surfing, domestic, household activity.”

“Mort, who was still welded to the sofa, spoke without looking up as he needed to concentrate on rolling a cigarette. Lounge lizard? Couch potato? Perish the thought!”

“A lounge lizard is a phrase meaning that someone is lazy, like a lizard, because the person is sitting on a couch or armchair.”

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