What Does This Mean?
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Text-message shorthand for "see you later", spelled with letter and number sounds: C for "see", U for "you", 8 for the sound in "late", R for "er".
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""Class is starting, CUL8R!""
LORE & ORIGIN
Wiktionary calls it internet slang and text-messaging shorthand for "see you later", built from "c", "u" and the separate shorthand "l8r". Wikipedia's list of internet slang phrases cites CUL8R as its example of number-based shorthand but gives no date. No dated source found yet.
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PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)
2000s-2010s
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