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wake up
verb- to make someone aware; to inform someone AUSTRALIA, 1859
- “I’m not saying it is a bad song,” Arthur continued, “but why try and wake him up to what fools think?” — Alan Marshall, I Can Jump Puddles, p. 214, 1955
- It’s time to start doing a bit of kicking back, and then it might wake up a few people that we’re sick of the weak dogs hiding behind justice, to keep the poor poorer and the rich richer, and the prisoner a vegetable and robot. — Ray Denning, Prison Diaries, p. 108, 1979
- to become aware that you are being swindled US
- Pocket said, “Blue, did you bring a rod just in case the crazy mark wakes up?” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Trick Baby, p. 224, 1969
- in horse racing, to stimulate a horse illegally by electric shock or drugs US
- — Dan Parker, The ABC of Horse Racing, p. 150, 1947
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