Meaning of wakey | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Clipping of Wakefield: an industrial city and metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England; traditionally a centre for the cloth and coal industries.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
2. The day on which one wakes up and travels home.
   no-plural, slang

Examples

“'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[…]”

“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).”

“When you became a 'short timer' (20 days and a wakey) you delighted in sticking it up to the new arrivals.”

“Barnsely General? Or are you in that posh private one in Wakey?”

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

“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.”

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