til
noun
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til
1 American
[til, teel]
/ tɪl, til /
Also
teel
noun
'til
2
American
[til]
/ tɪl /
preposition
TIL
3
American
Or
til
abbreviation
til
British
/ tiːl, tɪl /
noun
Commonly Confused
See till 1.
Etymology
Origin of til1
Borrowed into English from Hindi around 1830–40
Origin of 'til2
Aphetic variant of until
Origin of TIL3
From its use in digital communications
Example Sentences
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The court heard that in another text to Celeste, sent in June 2024, Burke wrote: "Let's let this abortion be the last one til we have the real one…"
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
“She didn’t even start watching the show til like last week.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
Let’s fake it til you become it, you know?
From Salon ● May 20, 2024
Schallock couldn’t recall whether Berra broke out any of his famous Yogi-isms such as, “It ain’t over til it’s over,” or “When you get to a fork in the road, take it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
On up til the end I felted good about that baby.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
And for the first time in a while, I slept ’til morning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
And then, at five ’til 6, there was only one tent left.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
I started there fully like six, seven and I played there 'til 15.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
He addressed his private battles on the gutsy Survive, which was released at midnight, and which opens with the line: "How long 'til it feels / Like the wound's finally starting to heal?"
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025
“Maybe half a day, maybe a whole day. Just ’til we get the frogs.”
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
"By adding a drug that inhibits PGE2 production to the TIL culture medium we restored the ability of TILs to respond to IL-2 and improved the expansion of tumor-reactive TILs more than two-fold," said Grimm.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
And yes, TIL is actually included in the guide, but so are thousands of other abbreviations that I’m convinced someone just made up.
From The Verge ● Apr. 18, 2022
As Adams tweeted to Keller soon after the article appeared, “The main thing is that I am alive. Do not write me off and make statements about how my life ends TIL IT DOES, SIR.”
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2014
Still, Sumit Mazumder, chairman of TIL Limited, a heavy equipment manufacturer, said he is more optimistic about West Bengal’s prospects.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2012
Injected back into the body, the engineered TIL cells would specifically seek out and destroy melanoma cells.
From Time Magazine Archive
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