bye-bye
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See also: byè byé
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bye-bye
- (informal, often childish) Goodbye.
- 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:
- Bye bye! Let's play again some time!
Noun[edit]
bye-bye (plural bye-byes)
- (colloquial, often childish) A goodbye.
- (colloquial, childish) Bedtime for a toddler, going to sleep, going to bed.
- Brush your teeth, it's time to go bye-bye.
- Synonym: beddy-bye
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 224:
- "[H]e came to the gate of the city; and finding it shut lay him down and went to by-by!"
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- en:Farewells
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