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  2. Woke - Wikipedia

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    [34] [15] The American Dialect Society voted woke the slang word of the year in 2017. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] [ 37 ] In the same year, the term was included as an entry in Oxford English Dictionary . [ 38 ] [ 7 ] By 2019, the term woke was increasingly being used in an ironic sense, as reflected in the books Woke by comedian Andrew Doyle (using the pen ...

  3. What does 'woke' mean in politics? How the term is used now ...

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    The word "woke" is tossed around a lot in political and social debates all around the country. It's ramping up as Election Day draws near. The term carries different meanings and strong emotional ...

  4. A brief history of 'wokeness' - AOL

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    “I think [woke is] an unusable word — although it is used all the time — because it doesn’t actually mean anything,” Tony Thorne, the author of “Dictionary of Contemporary Slang ...

  5. How 'Gen Z Slang' Connects to Black Culture Appropriation - AOL

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    In text threads, social media comments, Instagram stories, Tik Toks and elsewhere, more people are using words like "slay," "woke," "period," "tea" and "sis" — just to name a few. While some ...

  6. Snowflake (slang) - Wikipedia

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    Snowflake is a derogatory slang term for a person, implying that they have an inflated sense of uniqueness, an unwarranted sense of entitlement, or are overly emotional, easily offended, and unable to deal with opposing opinions.

  7. Karen (slang) - Wikipedia

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    Karen is a pejorative slang term typically used to refer to an upper middle-class white American woman who is perceived as entitled or excessively demanding. [1] The term is often portrayed in memes depicting middle-class white women who "use their white and class privilege to demand their own way".

  8. What does 'woke' mean now? Erykah Badu, who popularized it ...

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    The OED traced the origin of woke's newer definition to a 1962 New York Times article by Black author William Melvin Kelley describing how white beatniks were appropriating Black slang at the time.

  9. Go woke, go broke - Wikipedia

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    Go woke, go broke, or alternatively get woke, go broke, is an American political catchphrase used by right-wing groups to criticize and boycott businesses publicly supporting progressive policies, including empowering women, LGBT people and critical race theory ("going woke"), claiming that stock value and business performance will inevitably suffer ("going broke") as a result of adopting ...