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wokewash

wokewash verb: to use social justice issues as part of a marketing campaign.

Verb

wokewash (third-person singular simple present wokewashes, present participle wokewashing, simple past and past participle wokewashed)

  1. (derogatory, intransitive) To use social justice issues as part of a marketing campaign.

Forms of wokewash

third-person singular presentwokewashes
present participlewokewashing
past participlewokewashed
pastwokewashed

Origin of wokewash

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

Questions about wokewash

What does wokewash mean?
Wokewash means to use social justice issues as part of a marketing campaign.
What part of speech is wokewash?
Wokewash is a verb.
What is the past tense of wokewash?
The past tense of wokewash is wokewashed.

Words near wokewash in the dictionary

  1. Woketopia
  2. woketopian
  3. woketopians
  4. woketurd
  5. woketurds
  6. wokewash
  7. wokewashed
  8. wokewashes
  9. wokewashing
  10. Wokey Hole
  11. Wokha

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