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to doin'

to doin'

1 9.8
To do something now or be busy with it
  • verb
  • /ˈduɪn/
  • Informal
translation icon : haciendo
  • What are you doin' for your birthday this year?

That is what he is doing, he says.

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Examples

  • Not too sure why I'm doing it like this.

  • And I don't always feel like I'm doing that well.

    Jubilee

  • I am going to be doing some live shows.

  • We out here and we're going to be doing these guys.

  • Yeah, we're thinking of doing a club type thing.

    Happy Hour Podcast

  • So I just started doing this last week.

  • So I'm going to be doing that this morning.

    Gas Monkey Garage

  • So once they're done, we'll start doing the magic.

  • I know for me, I've been doing actually nothing.

  • They make me feel like I'm doing real chemistry.

Idioms

hiya doin'
  • UK
9.9

A friendly informal greeting asking how someone is

How Active

to hustle
89 4.2
to doin'
  • Informal
1 9.8
working
1.0
to idle
1 3.2

Surface Forms

doin' infinitive
doing present participle
doin's third person singular
did past
done past participle

Morphology

doin' = do (transparent) = do + ing

The form is just the colloquial spelling of 'doing', so the meaning is directly recoverable from do + -ing.

Etymology

Doin' as a verb is the informal spoken form of doing, with the final 'g' dropped, like in goin' or talkin'. That's why asking 'What are you doin'?' sounds relaxed and friendly.