EGAVE

lizard

About 1.55 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
  3. noun An unctuous person.
  4. noun A coward.
  5. noun 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. noun A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous woman.
    lounge lizard; lot lizard; beach lizard; truck stop lizard

Similar words

lounge lizard whiptail gecko iguana anole iguanid bug sculpin horn beef

Often followed by

and is in was or that of with island

Word family

lizards

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