Usually means: Events or activities currently happening.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word goings on:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. goings-on: Merriam-Webster
  2. goings-on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. goings-on: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. goings-on, goings-on: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Goings-On, goings-on, goings on: Wordnik
  6. goings-on: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. goings-on, goings on: Wiktionary
  8. goings-on: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. goings-on: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. goings-on: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Goings on, goings-on, goings on: Dictionary.com
  12. goings-on: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. GOINGS ON: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  14. goings on: FreeDictionary.org
  15. Goings on, goings-on: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. goings on: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. goings on: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Goings on)

▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of goings-on [Occurrences; things that go on, occur, or happen; events; activities.]

Similar:
coïncidence, theatre-going, off-come, playacting, sight-seeing, co-existence, journalling, swopping, tour-goer, co-ordination, more...

Opposite:
stillness, calm, quiet, tranquility

Types:
events, happenings, affairs, doings, business, more...

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Similar:
coïncidence, theatre-going, off-come, playacting, sight-seeing, co-existence, journalling, swopping, tour-goer, co-ordination, more...

Opposite:
stillness, calm, quiet, tranquility

Types:
events, happenings, affairs, doings, business, more...



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