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lounge lizard

[lounj 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

When he played the lounge lizard strolling through the audience to serenade the ladies, it was done with a broad wink.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2012

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




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