lounge lizard
Example Sentences
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At 85, he retains, as Daphne Merkin once wrote in The New York Times, a louche glamour, “like a lounge lizard who reads Flaubert.”
From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2022
After the Dolls’ breakup, Sylvain embarked on a moderately successful solo career while Thunders and Nolan formed the Heartbreakers and Johansen reinvented himself as the arch lounge lizard Buster Poindexter.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2021
In another performer’s hands, the joke might have been a mockery of every Holiday Inn lounge lizard.
From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 2016
Helpless Victim makes us think of Tyler, the Creator if he was a fortysomething lounge lizard from Rhyl.
From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2011
He was afraid mother would smother him with money and insist on his being a proper lounge lizard again, and so he would gradually drop back into his old uselessness.
From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney
