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Another way to say “farewell”

20 slang terms grouped by this meaning, ranked by popularity.

  1. Resigning with a dramatic, public flourish — LinkedIn post, group-email farewell, a TikTok explaining why. Opposite of quiet quitting. "He loud quit with a five-slide deck critiquing the company. Bold." Most loud-quitters regret the deck within 12 months; the screenshots live forever.

  2. Someone who moves first and talks later — the type who doesn't overthink, doesn't workshop their options, just does. An actioner is respected for their bias toward motion: when the group is paralyzed by indecision, the actioner has already started. In social settings this translates to the person who actually makes the plan, sends the text, buys the ticket. Not always the smartest move, but always a move. Energy that other people orbit because at least something is happening.

  3. Occurring after; indicating the later phase of.

  4. Talk To You Later. Sign-off for casual chat. Now slightly dated.

  5. (slang, AAVE) To take care of business; to get on with doing something.

  6. (AAVE, slang) peace; goodbye (because of the associated gesture holding up two fingers).

  7. (slang) , see you soon.

  8. (sports) A bye or victory awarded to a competitor when a scheduled opponent fails to play a game.

  9. (historical, military) A native soldier of the East Indies, employed in the service of a European colonial power, notably the British India army (first under the British-chartered East India Company, later in the crown colony), but also France and Portugal.

  10. (US, Canada, properly) The individual in a graduating class who delivers the farewell or valedictory address, often the person who graduates with the highest grades.

  11. (US, military, informal) A meal served in the mess hall around midnight or later.

  12. (US) A hasty exit made without saying farewells to anybody.

  13. (chiefly, nautical, historical, US) A man's armspan, generally reckoned to be six feet (about 1.8 metres). Later used to measure the depth of water, but now generally replaced by the metre outside American usage.

  14. (chiefly, Commonwealth, UK, Irish, informal, colloquial) Goodbye.

  15. (Scotland, rare) Coming after; later; subsequent; of later date; late in order of time or succession.

  16. (Christianity, biblical) Lazarus of Bethany, a man raised from the dead by Jesus Christ and later Christianity revered as a saint.

  17. (British, old-fashioned) A bus, especially one hired by groups for pleasure outings, what was later called a coach.

  18. (UK) Abbreviation or diminutive for baronet, later replaced by Bt. It is a post-nominative title; the pre-nominative is Sir (e.g. Sir John Smith Bart.).

  19. (US, slang) A union organizer; later especially of the International Workers of the World.

  20. : bye, see you later.