"stretch-out" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2004, Robert C. Allen, Creating Hawai'i Tourism: A Memoir, page 118",
          "text": "As time progressed, the Gray Line increased its limo fleet, converted the stretchouts into passenger vehicles (later widely emulated), and brought the first sightseeing buses to the Islands.",
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        "A stretch limousine."
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