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hyperwoke en · ADJ

Etymology

From hyper- + woke (“aware of social-justice issues”).

Meanings

1. (slang) Extremely or excessively woke.
   • Sometimes, in the bid for rightness, feminists and hyperwoke folks can take the joy out of everything. 2018, Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, page 273:
   • "It's often seen as an outlet to express their grievances but also rebellion against what they would see as the social-justice warriors or hyper-woke millennials or liberalism as a whole," she says. 2020, Julia Ebner, quoted in Diana Wichtel, "At The Centre Of The Storm", New Zealand Listener, 21 March 2020 - 27 March 2020, page 29
   • It positioned itself as this hyper-woke response to the Trump Era, but in the end those elements were just woven into a greater overarching story. 2019 December 19, Terry O'Brien, “Undertow”, in Exit Zero, page 26:

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