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to-do


noun, plural to-dos. Informal.

  1. bustle; fuss: They made a great to-do over the dinner.

noun plural -dos

  1. a commotion, fuss, or quarrel

n.1570s, from the verb phrase to do, from Old English to don “proper or necessary to be done” (see to). Meaning “disturbance, fuss” is first recorded 1827.

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