hyperwoke

hyperwoke

English

Alternative forms

• hyper-woke

Etymology

hyper- +‎ woke (“well-informed in a social justice context”)

Adjective

hyperwoke (comparative more hyperwoke, superlative most hyperwoke)

1. (slang) Extremely or excessively woke.
   • 2018, Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, page 273:

     Sometimes, in the bid for rightness, feminists and hyperwoke folks can take the joy out of everything.

   • 2019, Terry O'Brien, "Undertow", Exit Zero, 19 December 2019, page 26:

     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.

   • 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'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.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:hyperwoke.