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toodle-oo

[tood-l-oo]
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interjection Informal.
  1. goodbye; so long.
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Origin of toodle-oo

1905–10; perhaps toodle (variant of dial. tootle to toddle) + -oo interjection
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  • However, toodle-oo—sailor, beware, and all that sort of thing!

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    Cleo Garis

British Dictionary definitions for toodle-oo

toodle-oo

toodle-pip

sentence substitute
  1. British informal, rare goodbye
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Word Origin

C20: perhaps imitative of the horn of a car
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Word Origin and History for toodle-oo

colloquial "good-bye" word, 1907, of unknown origin; variant tooraloo is recorded from c.1921.

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