Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • interjection Used to indicate enthusiastic agreement or understanding.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[right + (h)o.]

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Examples

  • So helmeted riders on road bikes with narrow tires are juste the same as NOBR AKES fixies with helmets, right-o.

    Single Sided and Fully Enclosed: The Inaccessibility of "Bike Culture" BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • "I'll settle with you later," and the Japanese, with a careless "All right-o," followed.

    Angel With No Hands Adams, Stephen 2005

  • Evidently "right-o" was not a word calculated to win in Twisted Nose's vocabulary.

    Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles James H. Richardson

  • "Oh -- oh, right-o," said Twyning; and to himself when the door closed,

    If Winter Comes 1925

  • He told me how he was coming here to give you a little surprise call before the season opened and the kids -- guys -- scouts, right-o, began coming.

    Tom Slade at Black Lake Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

  • Old Squills handed out a line of talk all right-o! ...

    The Danger Mark A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell 1899

  • Now you've made me afraid that I'm actually going see a prominent progressive make the argument that we need to make sure Obama loses so that everyone understand the raw kay: right-o re Medicare Advantage.

    Balloon Juice 2009

  • The way you deal with these characters as real people with real concerns is so utterly refreshing, and I remember one of the thing that impressed me so much with Oistros was how it wasn't the usual "oh, sex pollen, right-o, let's jump into bed" and this was carried through so brilliantly here.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2008

  • And Vladimir Putin's Russia isn't imperialist, has only peaceful, altruistic intentions, just like the Chinese Communist Party and the Muslim Brotherhood ... right-o!

    The Canadian Sentinel 2008

  • The record now shows that Arkansas's Blanche Lincoln is on board with higher premiums, that Colorado's Michael Bennet is good to go with gutting Medicare Advantage, that Nevada's Harry Reid is just fine with rationing, that New York's Kirsten Gillibrand is cool with taxes on investment income, that California's Barbara Boxer is right-o with employer mandates, and that Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter is willing to strip his home state of the right to opt out of the health law.

    The Senate Reckoning Kimberley A. Strassel 2010

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