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doing numbers

doing numbers is the present participle of do numbers.

Meaning of do numbers

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

Questions about doing numbers

What is doing numbers the present participle of?
Doing numbers is the present participle of do numbers.

Words near doing numbers in the dictionary

  1. doing it up brown
  2. doing justice
  3. doing lunch
  4. doing more harm than good
  5. doing nothing
  6. doing numbers
  7. doing off
  8. doing one's bit
  9. doing one's business
  10. doing one's damnedest
  11. doing one's darnedest

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