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  • Adverb
    1. (chiefly African American Vernacular, used with adjectives describing frequency) every; on such a basis.
      1. We go to school on the daily. ‎
      2. My sister gets in trouble on the regular. ‎
    2. Used other than as an idiom: see on,‎ the.
    3. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • We've had one strikeout after the other on the Jones account.
        • The remaining cell events exhibited a consistent ratio of infrared vs. far red fluorescence attributable to chlorophyll, resulting in a narrow linear distribution of cell events on the flow cytogram.
        • Think network television is washed up, overwhelmed by targeted and measureable ads on the Web?
      2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
        • On the third day after coil embolization, the follow up tubography showed the successful closure of fistulous tract.
        • On the other hand, the meiosporangial tetrads in Entorrhiza are also essentially identical to those of Tetragoniomyces uliginosus, a tremelloid mycoparasite [43 ].
        • On the screen, big-bosomed blondes intimidated bad guys who looked like waiters at the Ivy, everyone double-handing their guns in absurd poses, tossing around 'perp' and 'forensics.'

    Meaning of on the for the defined word.

    Grammatically, this idiom "on the" is an adverb, more specifically, an uncomparable adverb.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Adverbs
        • Uncomparable adverbs
      Definiteness: Level 1
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      1. en on the go
      2. en on the QT
      3. en on the up
      4. en on the qt
      5. en on the lam
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