lizard

Noun

1. Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake or part of †Mosasauria—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...
   • The forms of the serpent and lizard exhibit almost every element of beauty and horror in strange combination; […] - 1851, John Ruskin, chapter XX, in The Stones of Venice, volume I (The Foundations), London: Smith,...
   • Hooded rattlesnakes, horned toads, and lizards crawl in the dust and among the rocks. - 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration...
2. Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
   • Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby / Silver foil to trim your wedding gown - 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Proof”, in The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.:
3. An unctuous person.
4. 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. A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.
   • lounge lizard; lot lizard; beach lizard; truck stop lizard