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do numbers

do numbers verb: to be popular, as measured by engagement or sales metrics.

Verb

do numbers (third-person singular simple present does numbers, present participle doing numbers, simple past did numbers, past participle done numbers)

  1. (idiomatic) To be popular, as measured by engagement or sales metrics.
    • By now, my Instagram posts are doing numbers, but inside, I feel dead. Full, but dead.2017 December 15, Ruby Lott-Lavigna, “I Spent a Day Eating at the Most Instagrammable Restaurants of 2017”, in VICE
    • I wasn't made for no casket or no prison cell / Every title doin' numbers like I'm Miss Adele2018 June 29, Aubrey Graham, Maneesh Bidaye, Christopher Martin, “Sandra's Rose” (track 10), in Scorpion, performed by Drake, Cash Money Records; Republic Records; Young Money Entertainment

Forms of do numbers

third-person singular presentdoes numbers
present participledoing numbers
pastdid numbers
past participledone numbers

Questions about do numbers

What does do numbers mean?
Do numbers means to be popular, as measured by engagement or sales metrics.
What part of speech is do numbers?
Do numbers is a verb.
What is the past tense of do numbers?
The past tense of do numbers is did numbers.

Words near do numbers in the dictionary

  1. do not sit in Rome and strive with the Pope
  2. do not want
  3. do nothing
  4. do number one
  5. do number two
  6. do numbers
  7. do of
  8. do off
  9. do one
  10. do one's best
  11. do one's bit

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