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cheers

verbverbnouninterjectioncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//t͡ʃɪəz//
  • United Kingdom//t͡ʃɪːz//
  • United Kingdom//t͡ʃɪjəz//

To say "cheers" as a toast (to someone).

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of cheerthird-person singular simple present indicative of cheer

verb

  1. 1

    To say "cheers" as a toast (to someone).

    So I just tilted my beer, cheersing him.

    We cheersed and started drinking.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of cheerplural of cheer

interjection

  1. 1

    A common toast used when drinking in company.

  2. 2

    informalgoodbye, especially as a sign-off in an email or after writing a comment.

  3. 3

    informalThank you.

Forms

past tense
cheersed
past participle
cheersed
present participle
cheersing
third person singular
cheerses
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).