abbreviation🔥 Gen-Z slang
ttyl
talk to you later
What it means
Short for "talk to you later," a casual sign-off used to end a text or chat without fully saying goodbye. It signals you're stepping away but plan to pick the conversation back up.
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Examples
- Gotta run to class, ttyl!
- ttyl, my mom's calling me for dinner.
- Okay I'm heading out, ttyl bestie.
- Cool cool, ttyl when you're free.
Where it comes from
A classic chat-room and instant-messaging abbreviation popularized through AIM and early SMS texting in the late 1990s and 2000s.
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