Meanings
comparative more hyperwoke · superlative most hyperwoke · alternative hyper-woke
- slangExtremely 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 2732 more examples
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"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.
2020, Julia Ebner, quoted in Diana Wichtel, "At The Centre Of The Storm", New Zealand Listener, 21 March 2020 - 27 March 2020, page 29
Origin
From hyper- + woke (“aware of social-justice issues”).
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