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limo

[ lim-oh ]

noun

, Informal.
, plural lim·os.
  1. a limousine.


limo

/ ˈlɪməʊ /

noun

  1. informal.
    short for limousine
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of limo1

1965–70 Americanism; by shortening; -o
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Example Sentences

Editors flew down from the New York headquarters in a private plane, and Beckwith escorted them in a limo to a dinner meeting with Burger.

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Charlotte, Lisa, and their kids roll up to one such outing in a stretch limo.

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The sign out front is easily blocked when a stretch limo stops by to drop off patrons.

Houck said Springfield offered to sign autographs in the parking lot through the window of his limousine but the limo driver refused, fearful his vehicle wouldn’t survive.

A Bassett parent had leaned on a friend to donate a limo ride.

Hogue added: “And then he got into his limo with her and they drove off.”

A classic ODB moment was that MTV special where he took a limo to cash in food stamps.

A limo picked me up from my apartment in L.A. and I got put on a plane.

Shakur departed Clinton Correctional Facility in a stretch white limo.

In the back of a limo, wearing a plaid blazer, Quast raises his drink and says with a wink, “you stay classy, Iowa.”

Now their chauffeured air-suspension limo was tooling them up through the thickening crowds to the hill-cradled amphitheater.

Finally, Cam, Ev, and Curt escaped to the waiting limo and started the long slow crawl downhill.

The plant was also known under the names of Omnium tenerrima et minima and Aquarium limo innascens.

Quo tandem ex hoc profundo limo, in quo non est substantia, eripi queam.

Limo was delighted; she would have gone away with them in their great boat if I had allowed her.

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