noun

• 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.
• (chiefly in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
• (colloquial) An unctuous person.
• (colloquial) A coward.
• (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.
• (in compounds) A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.
• A peninsula in southern Cornwall, England.
• 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)