A state of perceived intellectual superiority one gains by reading The Huffington Post. ...Ali is so woke. At brunch she explained how wearing anything other than Chuck Taylor's or Tom's is really a microaggression.
Enlightened - beyond the normal curve in progressive thinking. I thought Josh was, you know, woke when it came to expressing his true feelings.
I guess this is what’s known as a “meme”— mostly I see it used by progressives and snowflakes to refer to their awakening to their own white guilt, or privilege. How sweet that they have been so brainwashed that they call their brainwashing woke. Verbs turn into nouns, nouns into verbs—