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lounge lizard

[launj liz-erd] / ˈlaʊndʒ ˌlɪz ərd /
NOUN
man who lives off wealthy women
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NOUN
lounge singer
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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

If Mr. Holmes’s performance indicates a trend, the new lounge lizard has a trait not commonly found in the old: sincerity, or at least the appearance of it.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 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 Frank Tenney Johnson


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