1. bang on - Adjective
2. bang on - Verb
3. bang on - Preposition
4. bang on - Phrase
bang on (comparative more bang on, superlative most bang on)
(informal) Precisely accurate; exactly appropriate or fitting; spot on.
Synonyms: on the mark, on the money, spot on
bang on
(informal, Britain, Australia) Exactly at
I managed to arrive bang on five o’clock.
She’s bang on the dot, as usual.
bang-on (comparative more bang-on, superlative most bang-on)
Alternative form of bang on
bang on (third-person singular simple present bangs on, present participle banging on, simple past and past participle banged on)
(informal, Britain, Australia, usually derogatory) 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.
bang-on
I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me. Drake Bell
I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever. Guy Ritchie
The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in. Theodor Reik
The Falcon was forever going wrong. Time and again Han and his rebel cohorts would have to bang on the dashboard with their fists to get some wayward system working. And this too helped give the ship a flawed, almost human quality. This is something I look for in all machines... Jeremy Clarkson
Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller. Wesley Morris
I knew she wasn't English Because she spoke it far too well The grammar was goodly, the verbs as they should be And the slang was bang on the bell So as the language barrier clanged and banged I couldn't hear--hear or see England, London, and Bow Crumbled into the sea. Pete Doherty