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wake-up

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wake-up
noun [in singular] an instance of a person waking up or being woken up:
the wake-up comes in the dark before dawn
[as modifier] tables full of men sipping a wake-up Armagnac.
– PHRASES
be a wake-up Australian and New Zealand English informal
be fully alert or aware:
I'm a wake-up to you.