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[Noun] | "lim*ou*sine" | \ ˈli-mə-ˌzēn \
1: a large luxurious often chauffeur-driven sedan that usually has a glass partition separating the driver's seat from the passenger compartment
2: a large vehicle for transporting passengers to and from an airport
Origin: 1902 ;
Earlier, "automobile having a fully enclosed passenger compartment with the driver's seat protected only by the windshield and a forward extension of the roof," borrowed from French, noun derivative from feminine of limousin "of {see: |limoges|Limoges:g} or {see: |limousin|Limousin:g}, France";
* Note : The motivation behind the name has not been satisfactorily established. The authors of (vol. 5, p. 347, note 4) suggest that the allusion is to French limousine in the sense "cape-like coat of goatskins or coarse wool worn by wagoners, shepherds, etc.," the roof over the driver being compared to the protective cloak. Such a comparison has parallels—note French capote "hooded cloak" and "top of a convertible," as well as English {bonnet:1|bonnet:1}. A difficulty with this hypothesis is that from the word's earliest appearance in French, apparently in 1900, it refers to the entire carriage style, not the covering over the driver. According to Trésor de la langue française, a different explanation is offered in the journal La vie parisienne, issue of December 10, 1904, which attributes the invention of this style to the engineer Charles Jeantaud (1840-1906), who was born in Limoges. However, none of the available photos of the battery-powered vehicles designed by Jeantaud show any resemblance to early limousines.;
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# 1 - { limousine:989298 }
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[ "limousine" ]
1: A luxury car with a division window between the front and back seat, which can be raised and lowered by the occupants.
* e.g., ... Cadillac's Fleetwood Series 75 model.
[ "limousine" ]
2: In America, limousines originally rolled off the assembly line as complete cars. They weren't super-stretched monsters. Around the late-1970s, early-1980s, companies began taking pre-existing cars (Cadillacs and Lincolns being the most popular choice) and stretching them by cutting them from one side to the other, between the front and rear doors, and 'filling in' in the middle.
# 2 - { Limousine:4858069 }
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[ "Limousine" ]
1: A collective noun for a group of slags.
* e.g., ... Person 1: "Yo, check that limousine there!"
Person 2: "Pfft... just a bunch of slags. I bet Robyn Khan is in there."
# 3 - { Limousin:5242277 }
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[ "Limousin" ]
1: A province of France, very green, with beautiful meadows, brown cattle, old houses and retired British.
* e.g., ... My parents sold their ugly terrace house in a London suburb and bought a lovely old farm in Limousin.
# 4 - { limousine:5935423 }
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[ "limousine" ]
1: Penis. Invented, apparently, by Salvador Dalí who used it frequently; possibly Grace Jones picked it up directly from him when she wrote Pull Up To The Bumper.
* e.g., ... "Pull up to my bumper baby, in your long black limousine ...pull up to my bumper baby, and drive it in between...shine your mean machine at me, I've got to blow your horn...".
# 5 - { Limousine:1717070 }
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[ "Limousine" ]
1: to Limo something or be Limousine.
* e.g., ... if someone is dressed well
[ "Limousine" ]
2: to be fashionable.
* e.g., ... "yo that girl is limo"
[ "Limousine" ]
3: also known as fly or slammin
* e.g., ... or if someone is fashionable
[ "Limousine" ]
4: derives from clothes designer Jack Limousine.
* e.g., ... "dawg, he's got limousine"
# 6 - { Limousine Liberal:3488505 }
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[ "Limousine Liberal" ]
1: Basically, the "Do as i say, not as i do" crowd of wealthy elitists who have the best ideas on how regular Janes and Joes can sacrifice their comforts and conveniences to help alleviate the sufferings and ills of the world while they dismiss themselves from the very things they demand of the public.
* e.g., ... Limousine liberal: Why are Americans so greedy and materialistic? How can they heat their homes in the winter or drive their S.U.V.s to work when they know the ill effects it has on our environment?
[ "Limousine Liberal" ]
2: For example.
* e.g., ... Average person: Wait a minute, don't you live in a huge mansion and get driven around in a limo?
[ "Limousine Liberal" ]
3: They'll tell us to ride bikes or use public transportation to get to work to conserve energy while they get taxied around in limos and private jets.
* e.g., ... Limousine liberal: Yeah, but that's different.
[ "Limousine Liberal" ]
4: They'll tell us to use solar powered energy in our homes and air dry our laundry while they live in huge mansions that use more electricity in one month than the average household uses a year.
* e.g., ... Average person: How on earth is that different?
[ "Limousine Liberal" ]
5: They'll do "sit ins" on a construction site to stop the building of shopping malls or condominiums to "preserve the land" while they own several acres of land for their own personal use.
* e.g., ... Limousine liberal: Well, I care more than they do, so I'm excused.
[ "Limousine Liberal" ]
6: They tend to be strong advocates for gun control or in some extreme cases gun banning. But see nothing wrong with the armed bodyguards they employ for their own personal protection.
[ "Limousine Liberal" ]
7: They tend to take a soft on crime stance and stand up for murderous thugs like Mumia Abu Jabar or Tookie Williams while they live in gated communities with round the clock surveillance that isn't within 50 miles of the nearest ghetto or any other high crime area.
[ "Limousine Liberal" ]
8: If his name happens to be Bono, he'll meet with world leaders to encourage them to raise our taxes to help the starving kids in Africa while hiding his millions in the Netherlands to avoid paying taxes himself.
[ "Limousine Liberal" ]
9: As the late comedian Richard Jeni once put it, "People who are going to change the world if they have to spend every last buck of YOUR money to do it".
[ "Limousine Liberal" ]
10: Your basic limousine liberal is a wealthy person who feels guilty about being wealthy but doesn't want to give up his fortune or sacrifice his conveniences.
[ "Limousine Liberal" ]
11: So he'll take the "pass the buck" approach by wagging his finger at the general public for not doing their share to help with the world's problems to deflect the guilt off himself.
[ "Limousine Liberal" ]
12: Many limousine liberals are also washed up has-been celebrities or rock stars who had their heyday in the 80's or 90's but their careers have since sputtered out and their names faded into obscurity.
[ "Limousine Liberal" ]
13: Since they know that today's Hollywood is extremely liberal, they'll take up some liberal cause to resurrect their dead careers and get their names back in the papers and the spotlight back on them in hopes of attracting the attention of a movie producer or record company.
# 7 - { Nigger limousine:7128860 }
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[ "Nigger limousine" ]
1: The city bus or public transportation
* e.g., ... It took me an extra 15 minutes to get to work today because I couldn't get around the nigger limousine.
# 8 - { loser limousine:5677207 }
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[ "loser limousine" ]
1: A Greyhound bus or a city bus, particularly in those U.S. cities where public transit is not popular, and where many of its riders are parolees, wear eye patches, stink, or have IQs under 80. A mobile Jerry Springer Show.
* e.g., ... I got a DUI and lost my license, so now I have to take the loser limousine.
# 9 - { limousine liberal:766322 }
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[ "limousine liberal" ]
1: Limousine liberal (or latte liberal) is a deragatory term used to describe a rich liberal who considers themself a champion of the poor and downtrodden, but lives a lifestyle of wealth and luxury.
* e.g., ... "Famous limousine liberals include such people as Arianna Huffington, Michael Moore, Martin Sheen, Jane Fonda, Sean Penn, and Barbra Streisand."
[ "limousine liberal" ]
2: Limousine liberals can usually be identified by any combination of the following behavior:
[ "limousine liberal" ]
3: - They support gun control, but they go everywhere surrounded by armed bodyguards.
[ "limousine liberal" ]
4: - They have a soft-on-crime stance, but they live in gated, private communities where there is no threat of crime.
[ "limousine liberal" ]
5: - They tell people to ride bikes and use public transportation to reduce oil consumption, while themselves traveling around the world in private jets and rented luxury SUVs.
[ "limousine liberal" ]
6: - They join organizations like PETA because they believe that killing animals is wrong, but they wear expensive leather belts and shoes.
[ "limousine liberal" ]
7: Limousine liberal is mostly an American term. In Austrialia, an equivalent term is "chardonnay socialist", while in France the equivalent term is gauche caviar (caviar left).
# 10 - { limousine liberals:269157 }
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[ "limousine liberals" ]
1: Wealthy people whose political beliefs are nominally on the left side of the spectrum, but tend to have a rather hypocritical view of liberal agendas, being happy to write checks but unwilling to support them once they start affecting their private schools and gated communities.
* e.g., ... Limousine liberals are the kind that silly old saying refers to when it says "if you're not a conservative by 30 you have no brain". If you're going to be a knee-jerk NIMBY, you may as well be a conservative, no matter how you vote.
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