bang on
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.32 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To talk about something constantly and tiresomely.
Australian usage; British usage; Derogatory; Informal
Example Sentences
- "So I can truly say that God's Perfect Timing is more bang-on than GMT or IST or EST or any other manmade time —He is never too early and He is never too late!"
- "“[…]A case of gambling addiction — what could be more bang on in a place like Las Vegas?”"
- "I managed to arrive bang on five o’clock."
- "She’s bang on the dot, as usual."
- "Still, by omitting some stops and running fast to Exmouth it makes up those lost minutes, and I get back to Exmouth bang on time at 2019, tired but happy."
- "I started recycling, just so she’d stop banging on about it."
Usage
- Informal
- Australian usage
- British usage
- Derogatory
Inflected Forms
more bang on (comparative)
most bang on (superlative)
bang-on (alternative)
bangs on (present, singular)
banging on (participle, present)
banged on (participle, past)
banged on (past)