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Goodbye: "Oo-roo," he said, turning to leave..... Compare hooray, hooroo.
Contributor's comments: "Ooroo" is also used in Melbourne and Geelong. I've heard people from NSW say "Hooroo" to mean the same thing. Also know someone from Brisbane who says "Hooray". It's interesting how the word changes slightly over distance.
Contributor's comments: Can also mean 'righto' but that is another I suppose.
Contributor's comments: Oo-roo was the standard farewell that I always got from my uncles in Geelong. I never heard it elsewhere in Melbourne they seemed to add the "H" as in Hoo-roo.
Contributor's comments: To this day I still use "oo roo" familiarly when saying "good bye" to close friends. I started the practice back in the seventies, when we lived in Adelaide. It was not particularly commonplace there, but I must somehow have picked it up as a young adult from acquaintances of the time.
Contributor's comments: I grew up in NW Tasmania and when leaving the house or farewelling via the telephone, we've said "oo-roo" for as long as I can remember, more from my mother than my father.
Contributor's comments: Goodbye: "I think this is generally known over Australia but I find it is more common in Mackay than anywhere else in North Queensland."