adios
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 6
- Letters
- 5
/ˌæ.diˈɒs/
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/ˌæ.diˈɒs/ · /ˌɑ.diˈoʊs/ · /ˌɑ.diˈɔs/
Definition of adios
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
intj
- goodbye
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intj
- goodbye
noun
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A goodbye.
“In fifteen minutes I had finished eating, swilled a cup of industrial strength scorch, got Solly’s keys and all the dope on how to handle his big new DeSoto, received a sack of ribs from Cleo to eat along the way and paid my adioses to Trumbo and Len Fugate who saw Helen and me to the door.”
“Bill McCauley also said his adioses as he’s departing this summer to rejuvenate the DCS for Doctrine at TRADOC.”
“At the end of the evening, some of the students accompanied Lezama back to the religious residence where he was staying and said their adioses.”
verb
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To leave; to literally or figuratively say “adios” to.
“About an hour later I adiosed the office.”
““Oh, yes, I’m so happy that my latest codelincuente has adiosed me,” I scoff.”
“Three cups later, he and Juana stacked together their collated notes and he adiosed the kids and caregivers.”
““ONE THING you need to be clear on,” Patti says after we’ve adiosed the scene, doubling back now to drive me to my car.”
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To get rid of.
“By the time they got there, somebody’d adiosed the corpse.”
“She also adiosed the eye contact.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish adiós; see there for more. Doublet of adieu.
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