Definition of "lizard"

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

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

(colloquial) An unctuous person.  examples

(colloquial) A coward.  examples

(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.  examples

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