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View synonyms for bye-bye

bye-bye

[ interjection bahy-bahy; noun adverb bahy-bahy ]

interjection

  1. Informal. goodbye.


noun

  1. Baby Talk. sleep.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bye-bye1

1700–10; apparently originally nursery phrase used to lull a child to sleep, later construed as reduplicative form of bye, short for goodbye
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. go bye-bye, Baby Talk.
    1. to leave; depart; go out.
    2. to go to sleep; go to bed.
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Example Sentences

But if Trump loses in November, bye-bye, inflated valuation.

Newton then waved bye-bye to a Villanova student section that taunted him all game.

Wave bye-bye as they sink like a rock two miles off the Newport Beach coast with eight consecutive losses and counting.

But we can say bye-bye to the byes: Every team is in action for the next four weeks.

It was soon bye-bye Braves - once again an October departure in Philly.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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