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lot lizard

lot lizard

1 9.9
A woman who offers sex for money to truck drivers at parking lots
  • noun
  • Slur
translation icon : puta de carretera (vulgar, ofensivo)

Examples

  • [Johnny:] You always were a lot lizard.

    Into the Lion's Den (2011)

  • Mistaken for a lot lizard by a small man from Honduras with a spiky leather jacket covered in studs.

  • I saw a lot lizard approaching the truck as I parked in the lot.

  • At the truck stop, a lot lizard approached the driver with a sly smile.

  • The lot lizards were notorious for waiting around the parking lot late at night.

Surface Forms

lot lizard singular
lot lizards plural

Morphology

lot + lizard

The meaning 'a woman who solicits at truck stops' is slangy and culturally specific and cannot be predicted from 'lot' (a piece of land/parking area) plus 'lizard' (an animal or vague slang for a loiterer). A B1 learner who knows the literal constituents would likely imagine a reptile or a person who hangs around, not sex work at truck stops, so the expression is idiomatic and opaque.

Etymology

The slang lot lizard likely comes from a simple image: a woman who stays by the truck lot like a lizard, resting on the warm ground or hiding under trucks at night. One popular story says this picture became the name for 'a woman who sells sex to truck drivers'.