Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. US) a BMW motorcar.

1981		A. Payne ‘You Need Hands’ Minder [TV script] 27: I could go and liberate a nice W Reg Bee Em.
1986		Eble Campus Sl. Mar. 1: bimmer – a BMW car.
1987		Eble Campus Sl. Fall 1: beamer – BMW automobile.
1989		C. Hiaasen Skin Tight 28: Where’s the blue Beemer?
1997		N. Barlay Curvy Lovebox 111: Every day he’s talkin’ beemers an’ bitches. Thassi. Beemers an’ bitches.
1999		N. Cohn Yes We have No 200: The Hooray Henrys with their beepers and beamers.
2000		Observer Rev. 13 Feb. 4: He now runs a secondhand car dealership, specialising in German cars. ‘Need a Beamer, I’m your man.’.
2000		Hip-Hop Connection Jan./Feb. 54: Commonly abbreviated to Lex as in the Lost Boyz’ ‘Lex, Coups, Bimaz And Benz’. You can find out all about those other cars yourself.
2000		Observer Rev. 2 Apr. 16: All those Beemer-driving City barrow boys.
2004		Fallacy ‘Car Chat’ 🎵 The Bimmer’s like a everybody ride, yeah?
2006		F.X. Toole Pound for Pound 60: Women [...] liked to score when they were sitting with Trini in their Beamers or Audis.
2007		C. Goffard Snitch Jacket 59: [...] from the safety of their SUVs and over the glinting hoods of their Beemers.
2009		P. Temple Truth 318: ‘Your car [...] That’s the black Beemer. Involved in a collision in La Trobe Street.
2010		Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 28: They arrive in tricked out Jeeps, Beamers and Mertzs done up in gloss black, camo, or day Glo custom finish.
2011		Sun. Times News Review 6 Feb. 2/1: You would probably expect a former It girl to be looking for a Beemer or a Bentley.
2012		T. Robinson ‘’Hot Enough For Ya? in Dirty Words [ebook] [He] emptied the gun at the shiny Beemer.
2015		Section Boyz ‘Trapping Ain’t Dead’ 🎵 We can pull up in a Benz / Or a bimmer like Beenie.
2017		D. MacShane in Twitter 27 May 🌐 No more Beamers, Mercs, Porsches in City, Mayfair, Hampstead. It will indeed be a new world.
2018		G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] The Beamer soon left them behind.
2018-20		T. Thorne (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Bimma — BMW car.
2022		Digga D. ‘Load Up’ 🎵 Find a back road and plot this dinger / Later, go back and bun up the Bimmer.
2022		J. Hannaham Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 155: Paul told her what model of BMW it was [...] and described to her the special features of this particular line of cars and the history of Beamers.