Walmart Shopping Trip To Get Ready For Camping
A2 English listening practice · American English · Curated for beginners
What does “toodles” mean in American English?
Toodles is a playful American English way to say “goodbye.” It comes from the older British greeting toodle-oo, used in early 1900s slang, which then crossed the Atlantic. For most of the 20th century, toodles sounded old-fashioned and cute, the kind of word a grandmother might say. Then American Gen-Z creators on TikTok and YouTube started using it on purpose for the same reason: to sound playful, retro, and a little ironic. Toodles, bye, toodles, friends, and toodle-oo all turn up in modern American casual speech, especially in upbeat sign-offs.
In this clip, a young woman finishes a Walmart camping-prep haul and tells her viewers, “So, toodles, guys. Bye.” The cheerful sign-off matches the rest of her video.
Vocabulary frequency
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Spoken English frequency
Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-US 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.
- ▸In American TikTok and YouTube sign-offs from young creators
- ▸In American children’s TV (Mickey Mouse Clubhouse “Hot dog! See ya real soon!”)
- ▸In American sitcom characters who play retro on purpose (Schitt’s Creek Moira Rose)
- ▸In American mom-blogger and lifestyle content
- ▸In American family-vlog channels and birthday-party content