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Elmo

proper nounnounattested in dialogue

  • United States//ˈɛlmoʊ//

A male given name from Italian.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Italian.

    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.

  2. 2

    A city in Missouri.

  3. 3

    An unincorporated community in Texas.

  4. 4

    A town in Utah.

  5. 5

    An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.

  6. 6

    A nickname for South African-born tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.

    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. 😂

    Incredible how low Twitter has sunk since Elmo fired the grownups.

Etymology

From an Italian contraction of Erasmo, cognate with Erasmus. Also a German short form of Elmar. * By folk etymology seen as a short form of Elmer.

noun

  1. 1

    A document camera.

    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.

    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.

Forms

plural
Elmos
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).