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See you later, alligator
See you later, alligator,
and Later, alligator.Inf. Good-bye. (Sometimes the reply is After while(, crocodile.)) Bob: See you later, alligator. Jane: After while, crocodile. Bob: Bye, Tom. Tom: See you later, alligator. Bob: Later.
See you later, alligator
interj. Good-bye. (From the 1930s. Answered with After while, crocodile.) TOM: Bye. BILL: See you later, alligator. BILL: See you later, alligator. TOM: After while, crocodile.
See you later, alligator
Bye! The title of a 1950s rock-'n'-roll smash hit by Bill Haley and His Comets, the phrase was already in use, especially in the South. For a decade or more, hep/hip/with-it cats and chicks ended conversations with the phrase. The standard reply was the song's next line: “after a while, crocodile.”
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Averill | | - | English (Rare) |
AleĈJo | | ah-LE-chyo | Esperanto |
Georgine | | zhor-ZHEEN | French |
Borislav | | bah-ree-SLAHF (Russian) | Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Russian, Medieval Slavic |
Monna | | MO-nə | English |
Vojtech | | - | Slovak |