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hyperwoke

hyperwoke adjective: extremely or excessively woke.

Adjective

hyperwoke (comparative more hyperwoke, superlative most hyperwoke)

  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 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

Forms of hyperwoke

comparativemore hyperwoke
superlativemost hyperwoke
alternative formhyper-woke

Origin of hyperwoke

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

Questions about hyperwoke

What does hyperwoke mean?
Hyperwoke means extremely or excessively woke.
What part of speech is hyperwoke?
Hyperwoke is an adjective.

Words near hyperwoke in the dictionary

  1. hyperwet
  2. hyperwets
  3. hyperwetted
  4. hyperwetting
  5. hyperwhite
  6. hyperwoke
  7. hyperworld
  8. hyperworlds
  9. hyperwrapping
  10. hyperwrappings
  11. hyperwrinkling

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