Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. US) a limousine; also attrib.

[1912		Day Book (Chicago) 12 Feb. n.p.: Again the cards were dealt. ‘I bet you one of these lymo- [...] - leemer...’ ‘Limousine cars,’ suggested the other].
1920		R. Lardner Big Town 80: She was out in Trumbull’s limmie from two o’clock till pretty near seven.
1952		W. Winchell On Broadway 5 Sept. [synd. col.] Gen. Douglas MacArthur [...] hopping into his long, ebony limmie.
1968		New Yorker 23 Nov. 96: ‘You ride in the limo, dear,’ he said to her breezily, helping her out of the Daimler and into the back seat of the Pierce-Arrow.
1977		Rolling Stone 22 Sept. 13: In the limo [...] she turns to me.
1981		J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 36: I used to fix him up with a limo and a driver.
1985		B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 8: A mature smooth-talking man of the world with access to a limmo and a pocket full of celluloid.
1992		G. Wolff ‘Waterway’ in A Day at the Beach (1992) 230: I saw this stretch limo, white and waxed.
1997–2001		Online Sl. Dict. 🌐 limou n 1. a limousine. 2. shoes or sneakers. (‘How do you like my new limous?’).
2006		C. Carr Our Town 363: ‘We got treated real good,’ Thompson reported. Again he mentioned the stretch limos.
2017		A. Parks Bloody January 176: ‘David’s limo will be here’.
2018		‘Aidan Truhen’ Price You Pay 112: Short discussion with a limo guy. He ends up in the trunk under a blanket.
2021		P Howard Braywatch 2: We’re in a limo heading for Phoenix Park.
2021		T. Pluck Boy from County Hell 53: [S]itting in the back of his truck, shaded by the limo tint.
2021		C. Hammer Opal Country 52: ‘‘Limo?’ [...] ‘This big black limousine. Shiny as shit’.