mayo2
(ˈmeɪəʊ)
colloq. abbrev. of mayonnaise.
| 1960 Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 335/1 Mayo, mayonnaise. Common lunch-counter use since c 1930. 1969 L. Hellman in Atlantic Apr. 118 Run down to the corner and get me a ham and cheese on rye and tell them to hold the mayo. 1971 New Yorker 10 July 20 We were sitting at a luncheonette counter the other day, just about to bite into a b.l.t. down, with mayo, when a familiar voice addressed us from an adjacent stool. |