lizard

Plural: lizards

Noun

• A reptile typically having a long body and tail.
• relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail
• a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him
• Any reptile of the suborder Lacertilia, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.
• Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
• An unctuous person.
• A coward.
• 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.
• A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.

Examples

• lounge lizard; lot lizard; beach lizard; truck stop lizard
• The quick ’LIZARD’ play snaked across the Scrabble board, extending to a double word score.

Synonyms

lounge lizard