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thank-you

nounattested in dialogue

An expression of gratitude.

noun

  1. 1

    An expression of gratitude.

    I must offer a big thank-you to my agent for getting me this job.

  2. 2

    That expresses thanks.

    a thank-you letter

Etymology

Compound of thank + you.

Forms

plural
thank-yous
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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).