lot lizard

The term was popularized by the book Sarah, a fictional account of the life of a truck stop prostitute.

lot lizard (plural lot lizards) (idiomatic, slang)

1. A prostitute at a truck stop.
2. (derogatory) A low or stupid person.
3. A customer or salesperson at a used car lot.

• 1986 — University of Kansas City Review, v. 53

  Maybe he's doin' a run to Shakey Town where some lot lizard checks his dip stick.

• 1994 — Susan Baur, "Confiding"

  And Larry across from them — fuckin' dumbo, that guy, a regular lot lizard

• 1999 — James Morgan, The distance to the moon

  A lot lizard was somebody who walked the sales lot and looked at every car and still didn't buy.

• 2000 — Green Day. Misery

  Virginia was a lot lizard from FLA/She had a compound fracture in the trunk.

• 2001 — JT LeRoy (Laura Albert), Sarah

  … the most famous "lot lizard", or truck stop whore, in the business.

• 2001 — Remar Sutton, "Don't get taken every time" (Cited in The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 2006)

  Floor Whores, a.k.a. "Lot Lizards" … Salespeople who have survived by learning to pounce on the first person who walks in cold, without making an appointment

• Ray Garton; Lot Lizards →ISBN
• True Crime