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.”

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

   “Hooded rattlesnakes, horned toads, and lizards crawl in the dust and among the rocks.”

   “When held in the hand, the lizard produces an amorous stimulus.”

   “Pinned against my neighbours, I could feel small hands, fleeting as lizards, fluttering lightly through my pockets in search of money, mobile, wallet.”

2. (attributive)Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.

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

3. (colloquial)An unctuous person.
4. (colloquial)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. (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”

name

1. A peninsula in southern Cornwall, England.
2. A village in Landewednack parish, on the peninsula near Lizard Point, Cornwall, the most southerly village in England, also known as Lizard Town (OS grid ref SW7012)