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Old 16-Jun-2006, 22:09
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Default Re: Cheers
It can also be used for "goodbye".

I'd concur with Coffa's "be very wary" comment: "cheers" can very easily sound incongruous, unless it's happily embedded in language of similar tone and register.

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