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how-do-you-do

how-do-you-do is the alternative form of how do you do.

Meaning of how do you do

Noun

how do you do (plural how do you dos)

  1. (UK, euphemistic) A difficult situation
    • Well, this is a fine how do you do isn't it, Gromit?1993, Nick Park, Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers

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Forms of how-do-you-do

pluralhow-do-you-dos

Questions about how-do-you-do

What is how-do-you-do the alternative form of?
How-do-you-do is the alternative form of how do you do.

Words near how-do-you-do in the dictionary

  1. how've
  2. how-d'ye-do
  3. how-d'ye-dos
  4. how-de-do
  5. how-de-dos
  6. how-do-you-do
  7. how-do-you-dos
  8. how-to
  9. how-to-vote card
  10. how-to-vote cards
  11. how-tos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: how-do-you-do (page history and authors); how do you do (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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