wakey

'You beauty, only 364 and a wakey to go,' the countdown had begun and would continue, as few days passed without someone calling the time. I spared a thought for our temporary enemy whose tour would endure to the end of the war[…]

2003, Gary Blinco, Down a Country Lane

Morale was also usually high, helped by the men's recognition that their service in Vietnam had strict limits – one year, or, to use a soldiers' expression of the time, 364 days and a 'wakey' (the day the men woke to prepare to fly out).

2010, Ian McGibbon, New Zealand's Vietnam War, page 542

“Wakey Brother Monster,” he said to Rose as he spread his replacement piece of toast.

2016, W S Markendale, Owen Pendragon: Guild of the Round Table

Eddie: Alright well I'll steer right clear away from Wakey [Wakefield in West Yorkshire] County Council death squad then.

2014, Nicholas Rombes, 10/40/70: Constraint as Liberation in the Era of Digital Film Theory

Yorkshire is a bloody beautiful county. ... there are worse commutes than Manchester to 'Sheff' or 'Wakey' or 'Tarn' across this landscape, past the tough and tender towns and villages: Tintwistle, Edale, Stalybridge, Glossop, Chapel-en-le-Frith and the rest, overlooked by sombre ridges, nestled in those scooped Pennine hollows, dotted by dark, shining reservoirs.

2020, Stuart Maconie, The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save it