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Do

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1824, OED Evaluation: Originally English regional and nonstandard

A social event, a party; a performance or show.

ExampleMeaning
My wife wa-- helped run it. But the two girls still on it but they've kind-of retired now and- and the younger ones have taken over but- there's still a good do which is all next weekend and it's a good do for the community.
Informal way of saying party or social gathering.
My wife wa-- helped run it. But the two girls still on it but they've kind-of retired now and- and the younger ones have taken over but- there's still a good do which is all next weekend and it's a good do for the community.
Informal way of saying party or social gathering.
ExampleMeaning
...it never affected me because there was never any money in our family for Christmas presents and-stuff-like-that anyway. And ah, as I got older, when my birthday ah was at Christmas ah, everybody ah you-know always made a big do- do out of it so
Informal way of saying party or social gathering.
ExampleMeaning
Those are homemade- not mine. My niece from Muskoka was up to v-- for the big do, for the party on Saturday.
Informal way of saying party or social gathering.
ExampleMeaning
How to be the drum major and so here- well, I'm not there- there's when we first started the band. One th-- that was a little do we went down to Minden. But ah, there's our very first parade.
Informal way of saying party or social gathering.