lounge lizard

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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

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

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

I cannot say that I have had much opportunity to study the person called here a "lounge lizard."

From Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer by MacQuarrie, Hector