thank-you
[thangk-yoo]
- expressing one's gratitude or thanks: a thank-you note.
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- an expression of thanks, as by saying “thank you”: I never got so much as a thank-you for helping him.
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Origin of thank-you
1785–95 for def 2; noun and adj. use of verb phrase thank you
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Examples from the Web for thank-you
Contemporary Examples
If you smoked Colombian weed in the 1970s and 1980s, I owe you a thank-you card.
The recreation therapy department afterward sent the club a thank-you note.
With the NYPD under fire for its stop-and-frisk policy, Michael Daly says we owe them a thank-you.
Fans of the new system should drop a thank-you note to Justice Roberts and the four other Supremes who decided Citizens United.
Why would colleges value something as simple as a thank-you note so strongly?
Historical Examples
Well, which of 'em are you going to have for yourself, just by way of thank-you, Billy?
A Case in CameraOliver Onions
He had said his "Good-bye and thank-you for all your kindness!"
Pelle the Conqueror, CompleteMartin Anderson Nexo
Kiss him, and say thank-you quickly, or there will be no story when you are in bed.
Once Aboard The LuggerArthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson
She served him unwillingly and grabbed his occasional Trinkgelds with scarcely a thank-you.
Villa ElsaStuart Henry
She's not without romance—and I wouldn't give a thank-you for her if she were.
Madame FlirtCharles E. Pearce