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SQW

SQW is the initialism of status quo warrior.

Meaning of status quo warrior

Noun

status quo warrior (plural status quo warriors)

  1. (derogatory, neologism) A person who zealously promotes or defends socially static or regressive policies; the antithesis of social justice warrior.
    • The SJW approach seems to have inspired a reaction from an equally impassioned group, the so-called “Status Quo Warriors” or SQWs [...]2019, Applying Wisdom to Contemporary World Problems, Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, Hate Begets Hate; Violence Begets Violence, page 159

Forms of SQW

pluralSQWs

Questions about SQW

What is SQW the initialism of?
SQW is the initialism of status quo warrior.

Words near SQW in the dictionary

  1. squushier
  2. squushiest
  3. squushing
  4. squushy
  5. SQV
  6. SQW
  7. SQWs
  8. SR
  9. SR-IOV
  10. Sr.
  11. SRA

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Adapted from Wiktionary: SQW (page history and authors); status quo warrior (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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