woke
- adjective
- /woʊk/
- Slang
- The artist used her platform to promote woke ideals during her performance.
These are actually the guy who was the Super woke DEI instructor.
- These are actually the guy who was the Super woke DEI instructor.
- I am anti woke, I am anti LGBT.
- There's very little support except among the woke apparatchiks.
- Get rid of your young woke producers.
- Now, no, unless they're woke speakers, no one else is allowed.
- You at one point refer to woke activists as our Pharisees.
- Nigel Farage to me is woke as they come.
- Like this is how far woke media has to go these days.
- I'm just there peak woke is is past.
- So woke, woke, woke, woke, woke, woke Joel, woke.
- Yeah, whose donations to the woke promoting institutions is bad?
- These, they ruin him Pride, all these woke bitches, They're vile.
Examples
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This past month we have seen the rise of the woke corporation.
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Many young people today are very woke about social issues and strive for equality.
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You guys have been super woke for how young you are.
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If so, are you woke enough or are you too woke?
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I'm not viewing the woke as the enemy.
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Increasingly, companies are adopting woke practices to show their support for social justice.
Antonyms
Compounds
- Offensive
An insulting phrase for strong social justice ideas seen as spreading online and changing people's views
- Offensive
A group of people who quickly and strongly criticise others online for social or political views
- Offensive
An event where people focus on social justice causes more than art or sport
- Offensive
A person who insists their social justice views are the only right ones
How Socially Aware
Surface Forms
Etymology
Woke in the modern social sense grew in African American English from the phrase 'stay woke', which meant 'be aware' of danger and unfair treatment; like 'wake up' to problems, woke now means being aware of social injustice.