do numbers

verb

To be popular, as measured by engagement or sales metrics.

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Meanings

verbdo numbers (third-person singular simple present does numbers, present participle doing numbers, simple past did numbers, past participle done numbers)

present singular third person does numbers · participle present doing numbers · past did numbers · participle past done numbers

  1. idiomaticTo be popular, as measured by engagement or sales metrics.

    By now, my Instagram posts are doing numbers, but inside, I feel dead. Full, but dead.

    2017 December 15, Ruby Lott-Lavigna, “I Spent a Day Eating at the Most Instagrammable Restaurants of 2017”, in VICE
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    I wasn't made for no casket or no prison cell / Every title doin' numbers like I'm Miss Adele

    2018 June 29, Aubrey Graham, Maneesh Bidaye, Christopher Martin, “Sandra's Rose” (track 10), in Scorpion, performed by Drake, Cash Money Records; Republic Records; Young Money Entertainment
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APA

do numbers. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/do%20numbers

MLA

“do numbers.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/do%20numbers. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “do numbers,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/do%20numbers.

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