thank-you

[ thangk-yoo ]
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adjective
  1. expressing one's gratitude or thanks: a thank-you note.

noun
  1. an expression of thanks, as by saying “thank you”: I never got so much as a thank-you for helping him.

Origin of thank-you

1
1785–95 for def. 2; noun and adj. use of verb phrase thank you

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How to use thank-you in a sentence

  • At one of the thank-you-marms in the road the sick man stopped, like a weary horse, to breathe.

  • The trees were stripped bare of leaves, the ground was hard, and the wagon wheels rattled noisily over the thank-you-ma'ams.

    New Chronicles of Rebecca | Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • It was a “thank-you-ma'am” in the middle of the road that caused Arabella's angry speech to end in a little shriek.

  • And then, when they are ready to go back to their villas or hotel, take his motor-boat without a thank-you.

    The Place of Honeymoons | Harold MacGrath
  • I meant this to be just a short little thank-you note—but when I get started I seem to have a ready pen.

    Daddy Long-Legs | Jean Webster

British Dictionary definitions for thank you

thank you

interjection, noun
  1. a conventional expression of gratitude

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