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up-do

up-do is the alternative form of updo.

Meaning of updo

Noun

updo (plural updos)

  1. A woman's hairdo in which most hair is kept above the neck.
    • Ruthie Alpern, as she was then known, was a poised and chatty blonde with an updo and a winning smile.2009 January 15, David Segal, Alison Leigh Cowan, “Madoffs Shared Much, but How Much?”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    upsweep

Forms of up-do

pluralup-dos

Questions about up-do

What is up-do the alternative form of?
Up-do is the alternative form of updo.

Words near up-do in the dictionary

  1. up-cycles
  2. up-date
  3. up-dated
  4. up-dates
  5. up-dating
  6. up-do
  7. up-dos
  8. up-end
  9. up-ended
  10. up-ending
  11. up-ends

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Adapted from Wiktionary: up-do (page history and authors); updo (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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