woke

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Awake

   Awake: conscious and not asleep.

2. 2

   Alert, aware of what is going on, or well-informed, especially of racial and other social…

   Alert, aware of what is going on, or well-informed, especially of racial and other social justice issues.

   • Waking up is a damn sight harder than going to sleep, but we’ll stay woke up longer.
   • If You’re Woke You Dig It [title]
   • I been sleeping all my life. And now that Mr. Garvey done woke me up, I’m gon stay woke. And I’m gon help him wake up other black folk.
3. 3

   Holding progressive views or attitudes, principally with regard to social justice.

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   1. 4

      Promoting cancel culture, identitarianism, pontification, victim mentality, or virtue…

      Promoting cancel culture, identitarianism, pontification, victim mentality, or virtue signalling.

   2. 5

      A person with progressive views or attitudes.

      • Not to beat a dead horse, but it would appear that the wokes are in an abusive relationship with the speech policemen, given that some of their favored terms are being abruptly disallowed (like trigger warning or “preferred” pronouns).
   3. 6

      A progressive ideology, in particular with regards to social justice.

      • Tim Bale, a professor of politics at Queen Mary University in London, said the war on woke kicked off as a counter to the “silent revolution” of liberal and progressive attitudes during the economic boom of the decades up to 2008.
      • The woke is the new religion of the left.
      • Millennials, such as Styles (and the other Harry, HRH, for that matter), were able to popularise and profit from woke.
   4. 7

      simple past of wake

   5. 8

      past participle of wake

      • […] have woke out of dreams, mayhap in which the beloved was smiling on you, whispering love-words-oh! how sweet and fondly remembered!
      • It has its tempers and its gentle moods. Yesterday it slept as we did, and now it has woke after a quiet night.
      • What time did you wake up, and what woke you so flamin' early on a Sunday morning? Something must have woke you. The alarm clock?

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