- dido⇄dido, noun, pl.-dosor-does.
(U.S. Informal.) a mischievous or disorderly action; prank; trick. - Dido⇄Dido, noun.
(Roman Legend.) the founder and queen of Carthage. In Virgil's ?Aeneid she receives Aeneas hospitably, falls in love with him, and kills herself on a funeral pyre when he goes away. - dido⇄expr. cut (up) a dido (or didos), to make mischief; cut a caper.
Ex. Three sailors on leave in San Francisco ... cut up a lot of old-fashioned didos and shenanigans (Newsweek).