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

For proof you need only visit Café Carlyle, where Buster Poindexter, the seedily attired, punkish lounge lizard, now 65, has returned with his band five months after his first extended engagement there.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2015

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

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