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right-on

right-on adjective: possessing political and social views that are considered to be fashionable and left-wing.

Adjective

right-on (comparative more right-on, superlative most right-on)

  1. (UK, derogatory, often) Possessing political and social views that are considered to be fashionable and left-wing.
    • "They [women who cohabitate] do not support the girls they live with and yet the girls do all the things a wife does for her husband, the cooking, the laundry, the housework, and sometimes she even supports him while he finishes school!" (To which one right-on middle-aged woman in the audience...1974 April 13, Barbara Piccirilii, “Landerslander”, in Gay Community News, page 9
    • The most telling thing about them is that both portray what they see as right-wing as 'the other', and so as less revolutionary and less right-on.2002, Liz Stanley, Sue Wise, Breaking Out Again: Feminist Ontology and Epistemology, →ISBN, page 51

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Forms of right-on

comparativemore right-on
superlativemost right-on
alternative formright on

Words formed from right-on

Questions about right-on

What does right-on mean?
Right-on means possessing political and social views that are considered to be fashionable and left-wing.
What part of speech is right-on?
Right-on is an adjective.

Words near right-on in the dictionary

  1. right-of-center
  2. right-of-centre
  3. right-of-way
  4. right-of-ways
  5. right-oh
  6. right-on
  7. right-onness
  8. right-shore
  9. right-shored
  10. right-shores
  11. right-shoring

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