Usually means: Formal greeting; inquiry about welfare.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word how-do-you-do:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. how-do-you-do: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. how-do-you-do, how-do-you-do: Collins English Dictionary
  3. how-do-you-do: Vocabulary.com
  4. how-do-you-do: Dictionary.com
  5. how-do-you-do: Rhymezone
  6. how-do-you-do: FreeDictionary.org
  7. how-do-you-do: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. how-do-you-do: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. how-do-you-do: Wiktionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. how-do-you-do, how-do-you-do: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. how-do-you-do: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (How-do-you-do)

noun:  Alternative form of how do you do [(UK, euphemistic) A difficult situation]


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