Pronunciations
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/ˈɛlmoʊ/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Proper noun
A male given name from Italian.
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MING. About his name. Oscar. Asians always pick out the most curious and most discarded English names from books and TV. Like Cornelius. Elmo. Wellington.
A city in Missouri.
An unincorporated community in Texas.
A town in Utah.
An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.
A nickname for South African-born tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.
Usage- Derogatory
- Humorous
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Twitter was far from perfect before Elmo happened to it but it’s a total shitshow now!
It is certainly conceivable that Elmo’s ragtag of leftover desperate engineers put out a feature without properly testing it. 😂
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Incredible how low Twitter has sunk since Elmo fired the grownups.
Noun
A document camera.
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Someone had to tell me when the paper was positioned correctly under the elmo (document camera).
Students bring their math work under the Elmo to share with other students to discuss their thoughts.
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The teacher can ask students to categorize the new information on the graphic organizer as they go through the text and the video, and then model this activity on an Elmo or overhead projector during the lesson, thus providing another means of visual support
Courtrooms in the United States District Court for the Central District of California have DVD/VCR equipment and an Electronic Evidence Presenter (sometimes referred to as an "ELMO") for attorneys to use when presenting evidence at trial or evidentiary hearings.
You know, in the courtroom, I used to have a little ELMO (an electronic evidence presenter) machine and there is absolutely nothing simpler than ELMO-ing. You put in the piece of paper and hit a button and the image is projected. But I can't tell you how many lawyers approached the ELMO as if they were approaching a cobra!
Noun
A character who is irritating to many but very popular with children, especially a character who joined a show late in its run.
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Jeff Sokol is the Elmo of To Catch a Predator
That little upended trash can is the Elmo of Star Wars. He’s inexplicably popular despite being intensely irritating.
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The Esmond Mills made baby blankets and, in a stroke of marketing genius, published a little book in 1924 designed to be read aloud to children. Called The Tale of Bunny Esmond, it was about an adorable bunny that was always cold until somebody wrapped him in a Bunny Esmond blanket. By a strange coincidence, Esmond Mills made a baby blanket that had Bunny's image printed on it. Bunny Esmond was the Elmo of his day. The Esmond blankets were softer than most, and in 1943, the author would have killed with his tiny fists anyone who tried to take his Bunny Esmond blanket away from him.