Wonk
What does it mean by "Wonk Out" or "Wonk Alert"?
I often find "wonk out" and "wonk alert" in newspapers.
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Those are not well-established phrases in English, though they may be trending just now. The noun is defined as follows. wonk: someone who works or studies extremely hard; someone who is extremely interested in unimportant political facts So the phrasal verb "wonk out" probably means something like "behave very much like a wonk", "behave to exhaustion like a wonk", "behave like a wonk until you drop from exhaustion".
- Those are not well-established phrases in English, though they may be trending just now.
- The noun is defined as follows.
- wonk: someone who works or studies extremely hard; someone who is extremely interested in unimportant political facts So the phrasal verb "wonk out" probably means something like "behave very much like a wonk", "behave to exhaustion like a wonk", "behave like a wonk until you drop from exhaustion".
- A "wonk alert" is a warning that something very wonky (very similar to the things wonks like) is about to happen or a warning that the story about to be told is very wonky.
- That way, you can skip the article without reading it if you're not much of a wonk yourself.
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Those are not well-established phrases in English, though they may be trending just now. The noun is defined as follows.
wonk:
someone who works or studies extremely hard;
someone who is extremely interested in unimportant political facts
So the phrasal verb "wonk out" probably means something like "behave very much like a wonk", "behave to exhaustion like a wonk", "behave
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