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▸ adjective: Happening; taking place; being or due to be put into action.
▸ adjective: (informal) Of a person, used to express agreement to or acceptance of a proposal or challenge made by that person; most commonly with subject "you" (see you're on).
▸ adjective: Fitted; covering or being worn.
▸ adjective: (postpositive) Of a stated part of something, oriented towards the viewer or other specified direction.
▸ adjective: (chiefly UK, informal, usually negative) Acceptable, appropriate.
▸ adjective: (often negative) Possible; capable of being successfully carried out.
▸ adjective: (informal) Destined; involved, doomed.
▸ adjective: (baseball, informal) Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
▸ adjective: (cricket) Within the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
▸ adjective: (snooker, postpositive) Of a ball, being the next in sequence to be potted, according to the rules of the game.
▸ adjective: (acting, drama, roleplaying games) Acting in character.
▸ adjective: (informal, of a person) Performative or funny in a wearying manner.
▸ adjective: (euphemistic) Menstruating.
▸ adverb: To an operating state.
▸ adverb: So as to cover or be fitted.
▸ adverb: Along, forwards (continuing an action).
▸ adverb: In continuation, at length.
▸ adverb: (obsolete in the US) Later.
▸ adverb: Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on.
▸ verb: (Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, Nigeria, transitive, colloquial) To switch on.
▸ noun: In the Japanese language, a pronunciation, or reading, of a kanji character that was originally based on the character's pronunciation in Chinese, contrasted with kun.
▸ noun: (linguistics) Initialism of Old Norse. [The language of Scandinavia until the 14th century, the common ancestor of modern Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, and Icelandic.]
▸ noun: Abbreviation of Ontario, a province of Canada. [A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Toronto.]
Similar:
egg on,
enter on the boards,
have it going on,
have the goods on,
keep one's knickers on,
knocking on heaven's door,
live on,
live on the edge,
not on your life,
on and off,
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