Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used to express farewell.
- adv. Informal Away.
- adv. Informal To bed; to sleep: "[Live Senate television is] a great way to go bye-bye. Pretty soon you're asleep” ( William Proxmire).
Wiktionary
- interj. informal Goodbye.
- n. colloquial A goodbye.
- n. colloquial bedtime for a toddler, going to sleep, going to bed.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a farewell remark
Etymologies
- From bye, goodbye. (Wiktionary)
- Reduplication of bye2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Consider this, a day in the life of a typical feline sterilization extravaganza:I arrived at 11 a.m. on Sunday morning … just in time to see the coffee and doughnuts go bye-bye.”
“It goes all the way in the pipes, and then, it goes bye-bye forever.”
“Sasha, the other female "beast" this season is also safe, which means it's bye-bye Caitlynn, who danced an amazingly angst-y but mature Sonya Tayeh routine Wednesday.”
“Rachel gives the first of what will obviously be a string of teary confessionals as her man is on the brink of bye-bye.”
“It might be time to say bye-bye to late nights and hello to my new, early bird alarm clock.”
The Huffington Post: Emily Faherty: Countdown to the New York City Marathon
“After being liberated, I looked across the creek bed I had just crossed after my outdoors nap, and seen my first sign, the proverbial whitetail waving sayonara, bye-bye, I'm outta here.”
“Jo was, presumably, meant to become a love interest, but she sucked and the fans lashed out and she went bye-bye.”
“But I have seen two other polls in the last 4 days that show the race in single digits, and I have also seen polling numbers that show 30% of Portman's voters have the potential to go bye-bye if they know about his role as Bush's trade rep shipping jobs overseas.”
“Otherwise … it's bye-bye Republican party. he soxus us with a caucus from the Baucus”
“Say "bye-bye Dick", and just fade away ... pretty please.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bye-bye’.
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Hyphenated Repeats
Exactly reduplicated words connected by a hyphen.
aye-aye, cleek-cleek, arc-arc, killy-killy, dum-dum, tom-tom, argon-argon, carbon-carbon, win-win, lose-lose, bye-bye, choo-choo and 113 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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You Can Say That Again
dum-dum, dik-dik, doo-doo, aye-aye, bling-bling, bye-bye, boo-boo, buddy-buddy, frou-frou, gado-gado, gee-gee, gang-gang and 32 more...
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Amity's words
My daughter's expressive vocabulary as of Dec 2012 (born May '11), including quasi-lexical interjections. No attempt is made to reflect (mis)pronunciation by phonetic spelling, even though it would...
ball, eye, car, apple, cheese, milk, bottle, water, light, no, dad, mom and 43 more...
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Say Goodbye!
Multilingual Farewells / Despedidas multi-idioma
Tweets
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