so long


interjection Informal.

goodbye: I said so long and left.

Origin of so long

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

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British Dictionary definitions for so long

so long

sentence substitute

informal farewell; goodbye

adverb

Southern African slang for the time being; meanwhile

Idioms and Phrases with so long

so long

Good-bye, as in So long, we'll see you next week. The allusion here is puzzling; long presumably means “a long time” and perhaps the sense is “until we meet again after a long time,” but the usage has no such implication. [Colloquial; first half of 1800s]