see you (later)

Goodbye (for now); see you again soon. OK, I've got to go—see you later! See you, man. I had a really great time.

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See you.

and See ya.

Inf. Good-bye. (See also I'll see you later.) Good game, Tom. See ya. See you, old chum. Give me a ring.

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ˈsee you (aˈround)

ˌsee you ˈlater

(also (I’ll) be ˈseeing you) (spoken) used to say goodbye to somebody who you expect to see again soon

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See you

and See ya

interj. Good-bye. See you, old chum. Give me a ring.

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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 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.