A minimal chat greeting meaning "I'm back" or "hello again" — a clipped form of rebonjour ("hello again") — used to announce your return to a conversation, chat room, or online space without any further ceremony.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Re, désolé j'étais parti manger."
LORE & ORIGIN
A long-running staple of French IRC, MSN Messenger, and forum culture: rather than typing out rebonjour in full, users simply type re upon returning to a conversation after stepping away, functioning as a minimal presence-state marker — the French chat-culture equivalent of the English "back" or "I'm back" — that predates and parallels the broader family of presence-machine vocabulary (away messages, read receipts, typing indicators) documented elsewhere in this dictionary.
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