lounge lizard
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.45 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An idler or pleasure-seeker; a person who spends considerable time loitering in bars and cocktail lounges.
noun
A lounge singer, especially in Las Vegas.
Example Sentences
- "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."