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bang on

bang on adjective: precisely accurate; exactly appropriate or fitting; spot on.

Adjective

bang on (comparative more bang on, superlative most bang on)

  1. (informal) Precisely accurate; exactly appropriate or fitting; spot on.
    • 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!2005, June A. Valladares, Ideate with June A. Valladares, page 77
    • “[…]A case of gambling addiction — what could be more bang on in a place like Las Vegas?”2009, Steven Manners, Valley of Fire, page 22

Preposition

bang on

  1. (Australia, UK, informal) Exactly at
    • I managed to arrive bang on five o’clock.
    • She’s bang on the dot, as usual.

Verb

bang on (third-person singular simple present bangs on, present participle banging on, simple past and past participle banged on)

  1. (Australia, Ireland, UK, derogatory, informal, usually) To talk about something constantly and tiresomely.
    • I started recycling, just so she’d stop banging on about it.
    • Give it a rest! You've been banging on all day.

Examples of bang on in a sentence

  • 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.2025 November 12, 'Mystery Shopper', “Is Devon the cream of the crop?”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 48:
  • He tells me that although he says he hates to bang on about the old days in New York, “because I sound like some old nostalgic fart”, he couldn't imagine living anywhere else.2026 April 4, Jonathan Derbyshire, “Lunch with the FT: Jay McInerney”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times...

Synonyms of bang on

Forms of bang on

Adjective
comparativemore bang on
superlativemost bang on
alternative formbang-on
Verb
third-person singular presentbangs on
present participlebanging on
past participlebanged on
pastbanged on

Words formed from bang on

Questions about bang on

What does bang on mean?
Bang on means precisely accurate; exactly appropriate or fitting; spot on.
How do you use bang on in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is bang on?
Bang on can be an adjective, a preposition or a verb.

Words near bang on in the dictionary

  1. bang like a dunny door in a gale
  2. bang like a shithouse door
  3. bang maid
  4. bang maids
  5. bang off
  6. bang on
  7. bang on the door
  8. bang on the drum
  9. bang on the money
  10. bang one's head against a brick wall
  11. bang out

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