lounge lizard

Noun

lounge lizard (plural lounge lizards)

1. (Jazz-age or flapper slang) An idler or pleasure-seeker; a person who spends considerable time loitering in bars and cocktail lounges.
   • There is at least a tinge of truth in that picture of Southern England as one enormous Brighton inhabited by lounge-lizards.1937, George Orwell, chapter 7, in The Road to Wigan Pier
   • I certainly don't advocate trying to copy some Las Vegas lounge lizard.1985 July 13, net.singles
2. A lounge singer, especially in Las Vegas.
   • Wayne Newton says he has one request: Never call an entertainer a "lounge lizard."1999, Nevada Department of Economic Developmenthttps://books.google.com/books?id=PELZHXcIZoMC
   • A second later, funky beats and distorted guitars kicked in, and then quirky hip-hop-style vocals with a country-and-Western lounge-lizard overlay.2002 October 14, The New Yorker
3. (slang) A person who spends a lot of time sitting or lying down, often watching television, eating snacks or drinking alcohol.
   • Watch only thirty to ninety minutes of TV a day, so people don't think you're a lounge lizard, a couch potato, or a pet rock.1994, Marguerite Kelly, Marguerite Kelly's Family Almanac, page 216
   • Social television is a direct challenge to the idea that television is an anti-social, lower-class, lounge-lizard, couch surfing, domestic, household activity.2010, Gerard Goggin, Global Mobile Media, page 95

   Synonyms:

   couch potato, bum, dawdler, deadbeat, dogfucker, do-naught, do-nothing, dosser, idler, idleton