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ˈwake-up, a. and n.
[f. vbl. phr. to wake up: see wake v. 8 a.]
A. adj.
†1. wake-up kittle: prob. the Pacific kittiwake. Obs.
1832B. Morrell Narr. Four Voyages Chinese Seas iii. 216 Whale-birds, wake-up-kittles, man-of-war birds, gulls, and tropic-birds.
2. Special collocations: wake-up call, a telephone alarm call for awaking a sleeper, usu. in the morning; wake-up pill (slang), a pep-pill; wake-up service, a telephone service specializing in wake-up calls.
1976P. Henissart Winter Quarry xxii. 219 He obtained his key from the night desk clerk and..left a wake-up call for eight a.m. 1979Listener 30 Aug. 274/1 Her addiction to the sleeping pills and the wake-up pills had, on more than one occasion, led to an overdose.
1946Birmingham (Ala.) News-Age-Herald 3 Feb. 9a/3 Because his wakeup service requires that he arise early in the morning, Harvey has acquired the habit of remaining up all night. 1969New Yorker 14 June 31/1 A number of young bachelors use us simply as a wake-up service—we're cheaper than Western Union.
B. n.
1. = pigeon-woodpecker s.v. pigeon n. 6.
1844[see pigeon-woodpecker s.v. pigeon n. 6]. 1897Scribner's Mag. June 773/2 The flicker has a long array of names,..like flicker, clape, wake-up,..derived from his notes.
2. [perh. orig. belonging to awake a.] to be a (full) wake-up (also, of several persons, to be wake-ups): to be alert or wide awake (lit. and fig.). Often const. to. Austral. and N.Z. slang.
1930Bulletin (Sydney) 16 Apr. 58/2 ‘Cripes, you're a full wake-up to that at last, are you?’ Snow exclaimed. [1934W. S. Howard You're telling Me! i. 12 Well, I'm awake-up; they don't get nothing out of me!] 1943F. Sargeson in Penguin New Writing XVIII. 68 Now I was a wake-up to what was in Maggie's mind. Ibid. 69 The pair of us were wake-ups when we heard somebody coming up the stairs. 1946M. Trist in Hadgraft & Wilson Century of Austral. Short Stories (1963) 214 ‘Don't you think we ought to have a cow?’.. ‘No, I'm a wake-up to cows’, said Dan. ‘Saw enough of them when I was a kid.’ 1955D. Niland Shiralee 19 A man should have hauled the cap off his head and chucked ninepence into it just to show him who was a wake-up to who. 1960N. Hilliard Maori Girl iii. x. 248, I never knew till now! Well, I'm a wake-up! 1977C. McCullough Thorn Birds ii. 46 When he saw the army lads were a wakeup he was off like a shot.
3. ellipt. for wake-up pill above. slang.
1969in Howe & Loraine Environmental Med. (1973) xvii. 227 Wake-ups and stay-awakes. 1972Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 2 July 14/3 He calls the pep-pills he swallows wake-ups, truck drivers, [etc.].
4. The act of waking a person from sleep, or of being woken from sleep.
1975Globe & Mail (Toronto) 2 June 27/5 Out of that $609 she could easily hire someone to do all the dirty work, such as housekeeping, and leave the easy work such as cooking and wakeups to herself. 1977M. Herr Dispatches (1978) 80 All of my stuff was..ready for the five-o'clock wake-up. |