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how's en · NOUN

(alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of hows (plural of how).
alt of hows
- I was never able to stop the search for the why's and how's of something so senseless as the arms race. 1977, Alva Myrdal, The Game of Disarmament: How the United States and Russia Run the Arms Race, A Personal Note (foreword), page xxiii:

(abbreviation, alt-of, contraction) Contraction of how + is.
alt of how
(abbreviation, alt-of, contraction) Contraction of how + are.
alt of how
- How’s things
(abbreviation, alt-of, contraction) Contraction of how + has.
alt of how
(abbreviation, alt-of, contraction) Contraction of how + does.
alt of how
- How’s that work?