lounge lizard
Example Sentences
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In the ’80s, the comedian and actress Lily Tomlin played Tommy Velour, a Las Vegas lounge lizard with more chest hair than talent.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2021
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
This time, instead of a couple of machines, Ocean brings a band with him, all in suits, whose bearded, long-haired guitarist looks like a lounge lizard but plays like a dream.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2013
It grimaces like Peer Gynt and winks like a lounge lizard, a cake eater.
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht
