CUL8R

CUL8R

An abbreviation for "see you later," meaning goodbye for now, used in texting or similar shorthand typing OK, I've got to go—CUL8R! Thanks for such a fun night! CUL8R! Ah, I've gotta run to catch the train now. CUL8R!

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See you later

and CUL8R

sent. & comp. abb. I will see you later. (see also L8TR. Common colloquial. Also said to people one knows one will never see again.) Have a great trip, Mary. See you later. Bye. CUL8R.

See also: later, see

CUL8R

verb

See See you later

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

see you later

Goodbye. This somewhat loose phrase—one need not necessarily intend to see a person in the future—dates from the latter part of the nineteenth century and has been widely adopted as a farewell. Children play on it with the rhyming See you later, alligator, sometimes adding on in a while, crocodile. These rhyming plays were popularized in a song, “See You Later, Alligator," by R. C. Guidry, sung in the film Rock around the Clock (1956). The telephone equivalent, used to end a conversation, is Talk to you later, a more recent phrase that is similarly widespread.

See also: later, see

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