lizards

Noun

lizard (plural lizards)

1. Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake or mosasaur—typically characterised by a rounded torso, a short neck with an elevated head, a long tail and four limbs, although some species are legless.
   • The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn of Pan”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh]...
2. (attributive) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
   • Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby / Silver foil to trim your wedding gown1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Proof”, in The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.
3. (colloquial) An unctuous person.
4. (colloquial) A coward.
5. A hand forming a "D" shape with the tips of the thumb and index finger touching (a handshape resembling a lizard), that beats paper and Spock and loses to rock and scissors in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
6. (in-compounds) A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous woman.
   • lounge lizard; lot lizard; beach lizard; truck stop lizard

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