8 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
noun a farewell remark
originIntroduced on May 2, 1941, as “Cheerioats”: cheery + oats. The name was shortened to “Cheerios” on December 2, 1945, after a competing cereal manufacturer, Quaker Oats, claimed to hold the rights to use the term oats.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0