What is "lounge lizard"

alt. (context Jazz-age or flapper slang English) An idler or pleasure-seeker; a person who spends considerable time loitering in bars and cocktail lounges. n. (context Jazz-age or flapper slang English) An idler or pleasure-seeker; a person who spends considerable time loitering in bars and cocktail lounges.

n. a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him [syn: lizard]

The term lounge lizard is usually used to refer to lounge musicians, most often in a pejorative sense. Since its first appearance as American slang in 1917, "lounge lizard" has shown up in nearly every decade.

In Buster Keaton's 1924 film " Sherlock, Jr.", Keaton plays a projectionist at a movie theater where the movie showing is "Hearts & Pearls or The Lounge Lizard's Lost Love". The movie within a movie has a character who is good looking and well dressed who is romantically involved with a wealthy young woman.

A "lounge lizard" is typically depicted as a well-dressed man who frequents the establishments in which the rich gather with the intention of seducing a wealthy woman with his flattery and deceptive charm. The term presumably owes something to the cold and insinuating quality of reptiles.

A lounge lizard is a social parasite who spends inordinate amounts of time in cocktail lounges.

Lounge lizard may also refer to:

• Lounge Lizard, an electronic piano emulator created by Applied Acoustic Systems
• Austin Lounge Lizards, a band from Austin, Texas formed in 1980
• The Lounge Lizards, a jazz group formed in 1978 by saxophone player John Lurie
• Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, the first in a series of video games starring Leisure Suit Larry.