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lounge lizard

noun as in man who lives off wealthy women

noun as in lounge singer

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I used all kinds of lounge lizards, alley cats, and I made a substitute father figure in Papa Croc, who was this Don King character.

At 85, he retains, as Daphne Merkin once wrote in The New York Times, a louche glamour, “like a lounge lizard who reads Flaubert.”

Don’t fall for the slick, dandified cake eater — the unpolished gold of a real man is worth more than the gloss of a lounge lizard.

“Louche, languid, laconic. A lounge lizard, like I’m a nuisance around women.”

Wearing a crisp white shirt, skinny black tie and tailored black suit, he speaks with the languid, affected delivery of a practiced lounge lizard.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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