"right-on" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more right-on [comparative], most right-on [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} right-on (comparative more right-on, superlative most right-on)
  1. (now chiefly UK, now often derogatory) Possessing political and social views that are considered to be fashionable and left-wing. Tags: UK, derogatory, often Synonyms: politically correct, PC, woke, right on Derived forms: right-onness
    Sense id: en-right-on-en-adj-T5o5WRjS Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1974 April 13, Barbara Piccirilii, “Landerslander”, in Gay Community News, page 9",
          "text": "\"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 responded, \"So we did the same thing only we had a piece of paper which made it legal!\"",
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          "ref": "2002, Liz Stanley, Sue Wise, Breaking Out Again: Feminist Ontology and Epistemology, page 51",
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          "ref": "2014, Andrew-Henry Bowie, The Death of Mr. Grumble",
          "text": "Sid was greying, and small and very right-on when it came to the left. To Mr Grumble, Sid looked like another BTC, graduate tree-hugger, the type that hitchhiked around Tajikistan, or worked in the local library, or charity shop; the sort who would bother him in the street to complete some marketing survey.",
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          "ref": "2014 October 23, Laura Pitel, “Charity refuses money from Ukip calypso song”, in The Times, number 71335, page 2",
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