tinkety-tonk

interjection

Goodbye.

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Meanings

interjection
  1. colloquialdatedGoodbye.

    I'm so pleased you're coming. Tinkety tonk Daph PS No wild oats yet

    2012, Rachel Johnson, Winter Games
    1 more example

    "On the roof. Right! Well, tinkety-tonk, then, for the moment," said his lordship, and pattered off down the stairs.

    1927, P. G. Wodehouse, The Small Bachelor
  2. The tinkling sound of light piano music.

    There goes the piano, tinkety-tonk, and there don't go my feet.

    2008, Elizabeth Laird, Paradise End, page 139
    1 more example

    […] the main tinkety-tonk piano theme tune to the St. Trinian's films […]

    2021, Scala Radio's A Soundtrack for Life
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