lizard

noun

1. 1

   Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.

2. 2

   (chiefly in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.

3. 3

   An unctuous person.

4. 4

   A coward.

5. 5

   (rock paper scissors) 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. 6

   (in compounds) A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.

   “lounge lizard; lot lizard; beach lizard; truck stop lizard”