Hey, stranger!

Meaning

A friendly, welcoming exclamation used when encountering a friend or relative you have not seen in a long time. It implies that you have been missed.

Warm, welcoming

Used in a sentence

• I bumped into Sarah at the grocery store and exclaimed, Hey stranger, it has been ages!
• Walking into the reunion, my uncle greeted me with a big hug and said, Hey stranger!
• It had been six months since our last coffee, so I texted him, Hey stranger, long time no see.