Meanings
adverbsquare on (not comparable)
- idiomaticnot comparableaccurately, correctly.
I was square on time for my appointment at the Lafayette Coney Island and I wanted to be late.
2013 November 18, Loren D. Estleman, The Detroit Novels Volume One: Edsel, Stress, and Motown, Open Road Media, →ISBN1 more example
Don't Look Up aims too high for its scattershot barbs to consistently land, but Adam McKay's star-studded satire hits its target of collective denial square on.
2021, Critics Consensus, Don't Look Up
Cite this entry
APA
square on. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/square%20on
MLA
“square on.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/square%20on. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “square on,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/square%20on.
Source: square on on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.