lizard

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.

• 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.
• The forms of the serpent and lizard exhibit almost every element of beauty and horror in strange combination; […]

Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.attributive

• Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby / Silver foil to trim your wedding gown

An unctuous person.colloquial

A coward.colloquial

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 woman.in-compounds

• lounge lizard; lot lizard; beach lizard; truck stop lizard