pit lizard
- noun
- Archaic
:
fiestero
- After moving to the city, he quickly became known as a pit lizard among his friends.
Examples
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Every Friday, the pit lizards flocked to their favorite downtown bar for drinks and music.
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She used to be a pit lizard before settling down and starting a family.
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Jake is a real pit lizard!
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Many pit lizards love the vibrant atmosphere of downtown bars.
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Every Friday, the pit lizards flocked to their favorite downtown bar for drinks and music.
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After moving to the city, he quickly became known as a pit lizard among his friends.
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She used to be a pit lizard before settling down and starting a family.
Synonyms
4
8.2
A person who spends a lot of time drinking and talking in bars
2
9.7
A man who spends time in hotel bars trying to charm women for money
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4.4
A person who often goes to nightclubs to dance and meet people
Antonyms
How Social
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is slangy and culture-specific: the literal meanings of 'pit' and 'lizard' (or even the rare slang senses given) do not transparently combine to yield 'frequent nightclub/bar-goer.' A B1 learner who knows the constituent words would not reliably infer this social/idiomatic meaning without prior exposure, so the expression is unpredictable and language-specific.
Etymology
Pit lizard may come from the image of a small lizard living in the pit, the busy dance area of a club, that comes out at night. So a pit lizard means 'someone who spends a lot of time in bars or nightclubs'.