how's

See also: hows

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haʊz/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aʊz
• Homophone: house (verb, in some dialects)

Contraction

how's

1. Contraction of how is.
2. Contraction of how has.
3. Contraction of how does.

   How’s that work?

Noun

how's

1. Alternative spelling of hows (plural of how).
   • 1977, Alva Myrdal, The Game of Disarmament: How the United States and Russia Run the Arms Race‎^[1], A Personal Note (foreword), page xxiii:

     I was never able to stop the search for the why's and how's of something so senseless as the arms race.

See also

• how're

Anagrams

• Show, show, who's, whos