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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
goings-on
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
strange
▪ There were all these strange chants and goings-on.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ According to Gwen, there had been some very strange goings-on in the upstairs apartment.
▪ I could hardly believe it when he told me about the goings-on in his office.
▪ Kennedy was shocked at some of the goings-on at the school.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But what could a kid know about such goings-on as were chronicled in the pages she had read?
▪ Moreover, Eleanor's references to Freddie's goings-on, however much Liza suspected there might have been plenty, upset her.
▪ None of these goings-on has done anything to calm the Polynesians.
▪ The book is set in a fictitious village called Paradise, and is full of sexy rural romping and illicit goings-on.
▪ The spooky goings-on happened when night watchman James Durham spotted a man with a heavy overcoat walking his black retriever.
▪ There were all these strange chants and goings-on.
▪ Word is she and McDermott exchanged pleasantries and greetings and watched the goings-on.
Wiktionary
goings-on

n. Occurrences; things that go on, occur, or happen; events; activities.

Usage examples of "goings-on".

Caroline leaned forward in her eagerness to persuade Mary, the goings-on abovestairs temporarily forgotten.

Dunky, an authority on the interrelatedness and goings-on of the local families.

Hayes and the postmistress, his girl was an undergraduate, here in Kinnikinick, and according to college regulations, and possibly the Bible and the State Constitution of Iowa, if they were married, she would have to drop out of college and less agile minds might even hint that there had been goings-on inconceivable in a rhetoric professor.

Aside from the goings-on in the Cities, nothing much of consequence happened in the state as a rule, but everyone insisted on having the nonevents relayed to them at the end of the day.

Anyway, while we are watching the goings-on around the goalposts, our little doll says come on and jumps up and runs down an aisle and out onto the field, and into the crowd around the goalposts, so naturally we follow her.

Given the sinister goings-on since Van Slyke's disappearance, Harry felt it behooved him to speak to the lost boy's parents personally.

Travis investigates the sinister goings-on in the Manhattan financial institution where Howard was employed, discovers that inconvenient persons have been imprisoned in a mental facility, and learns more than he would like to know about the call girl business, .

She talked solemnly into his ear, in a very low voice, trying to tell him in parrot language that she thought these goings-on were extremely peculiar, but that so long as Jack approved of them, she did too-and she was coming with him, even in this dark, smelly car boot!

She talked solemnly into his ear, in a very low voice, trying to tell him in parrot language that she thought these goings-on were extremely peculiar, but that so long as Jack approved of them, she did tooand she was coming with him, even in this dark, smelly car boot!

Anyhow, it's a good thing for you I didn't know about such goings-on in 1954, Jim Conyers, or I'd have thought twice about marrying you.

There's tradecraft to discuss, there are the useful snippets about goings-on inside the Embassy, which are so handy to the lamplighters in their bread-and-butter surveillance operations against the residency.

The mongrelized crew was unusual enough by Bingtown standards, without men jumping ship in the harbor and spreading rumors of the odd goings-on aboard the ship.

Yaz's mission per Jones's orders was to brief his friend on the strange goings-on in Nova Scotia, as well as the piece of videotape from Plum Island.

He didn't think that the senior captain would approve such goings-on.

Such goings-on had typified other Tail-hook Conventions, but somehow, this one had gotten out of hand.