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tinkety-tonk en · INTJ

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1. (colloquial, dated) Goodbye.
   • "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:
   • I'm so pleased you're coming. Tinkety tonk Daph PS No wild oats yet 2012, Rachel Johnson, Winter Games:
2. The tinkling sound of light piano music.
   • […] the main tinkety-tonk piano theme tune to the St. Trinian's films […] 2021, Scala Radio's A Soundtrack for Life:
   • There goes the piano, tinkety-tonk, and there don't go my feet. 2008, Elizabeth Laird, Paradise End, page 139:

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