toodle-oo
[ tood-l-oo ]
/ ˌtud lˈu /
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interjection Informal.
goodbye; so long.
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Origin of toodle-oo
Words nearby toodle-oo
too, too bad, too big for one's britches, too close for comfort, too close to call, toodle-oo, Tooele, too good to be true, took, Tooke, tool
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British Dictionary definitions for toodle-oo
toodle-oo
toodle-pip
/ (ˌtuːdəˈluː) /
sentence substitute
British informal, rare goodbye
Word Origin for toodle-oo
C20: perhaps imitative of the horn of a car
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