Usually means: Formal greeting; inquiring about welfare.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word how do you do:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. how do you do: Merriam-Webster
  2. how-do-you-do, how do you do: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. how-do-you-do, how-do-you-do, how do you do, how do you do: Collins English Dictionary
  4. how-do-you-do: Vocabulary.com
  5. How do you do, how do you do: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. how do you do: Wiktionary
  7. how do you do: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. how-do-you-do, how do you do, how do you do: Dictionary.com
  9. How Do You Do (Mayer Hawthorne album), How Do You Do (Mouth & MacNeal song), How Do You Do (disambiguation), How Do You Do, How Do You Do: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. how-do-you-do: Rhymezone
  11. how-do-you-do: FreeDictionary.org
  12. how-do-you-do: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. how-do-you-do, how do you do: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. how do you do: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How do you do: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. how-do-you-do, how do you do, how do you do: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (UK, euphemistic) A difficult situation

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