"pick-me" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "pick-mes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, Veronica Preaskom, \"Gender Inequalities and the Lack of Support\", Oakton Outlook (Oakton High School, Vienna, VA), May 2021, page 34",
          "text": "Alongside being called a “pick me” for watching sports, female athletes or even scholars are often called tryhards or told to just go back to the kitchen."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 August 19, Annette Ejiofer, “Beyoncé is your bully’s favourite target and I know why”, in Toronto Star",
          "text": "She sings against the mistakes of her husband, as in “Lemonade,” sharing his missteps with her fans, and this angers women stuck under the whims of men — the pick mes as the internet calls them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 December 11, Mabel Banfield-Nwachi, “What The White Lotus gets wrong with Portia’s Gen-Z wardrobe”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "So, she uses her clothes to try to assert herself, to show that she is somehow different (even if her actions suggest otherwise) in a “pick me” sort of way.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of pick-me girl."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
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        ],
        [
          "pick-me girl",
          "pick-me girl#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, derogatory) Synonym of pick-me girl."
      ],
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          ],
          "word": "pick-me girl"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "slang"
      ]
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          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Feminism",
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          "name": "Social justice",
          "orig": "en:Social justice",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Danica Seto, \"White People, Please Pick Me\", Overachiever Magazine, September 2020 (link)",
          "text": "Pick-mes are ideal for the role of the token minority friend since they often fall in line with racist beliefs used against their own community."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 November 1, Marissa Foster, “Stop being a 'pick me' person to fit in”, in Pepperpot, Georgetown, Guyana, page 20",
          "text": "The most disgusting act I've seen from a \"pick me\" is when they'd bring others down or betray the ones who cared for them all in the name of \"being accepted.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Shreya Joshi, \"Ghislaine Maxwell and the pathological pick-me syndrome\", The Medium (University of Toronto Mississauga, 17 January 2022, page 6",
          "text": "A “pick-me” person is desperate for acceptance from a particular group and will do whatever it takes to gain access to certain social circles and remain there."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who acts against the interests of their own (typically marginalized) group in the hope of obtaining majority favour."
      ],
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          "marginalized"
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        [
          "majority",
          "majority"
        ],
        [
          "favour",
          "favour"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, derogatory, by extension) A person who acts against the interests of their own (typically marginalized) group in the hope of obtaining majority favour."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "derogatory",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "pick-me"
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    "English nouns",
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    {
      "form": "pick-mes",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
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    {
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      "expansion": "pick-me (plural pick-mes)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "English derogatory terms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, Veronica Preaskom, \"Gender Inequalities and the Lack of Support\", Oakton Outlook (Oakton High School, Vienna, VA), May 2021, page 34",
          "text": "Alongside being called a “pick me” for watching sports, female athletes or even scholars are often called tryhards or told to just go back to the kitchen."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 August 19, Annette Ejiofer, “Beyoncé is your bully’s favourite target and I know why”, in Toronto Star",
          "text": "She sings against the mistakes of her husband, as in “Lemonade,” sharing his missteps with her fans, and this angers women stuck under the whims of men — the pick mes as the internet calls them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 December 11, Mabel Banfield-Nwachi, “What The White Lotus gets wrong with Portia’s Gen-Z wardrobe”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "So, she uses her clothes to try to assert herself, to show that she is somehow different (even if her actions suggest otherwise) in a “pick me” sort of way.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of pick-me girl."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "pick-me girl",
          "pick-me girl#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, derogatory) Synonym of pick-me girl."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "pick-me girl"
        }
      ],
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        "derogatory",
        "slang"
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    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020, Danica Seto, \"White People, Please Pick Me\", Overachiever Magazine, September 2020 (link)",
          "text": "Pick-mes are ideal for the role of the token minority friend since they often fall in line with racist beliefs used against their own community."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 November 1, Marissa Foster, “Stop being a 'pick me' person to fit in”, in Pepperpot, Georgetown, Guyana, page 20",
          "text": "The most disgusting act I've seen from a \"pick me\" is when they'd bring others down or betray the ones who cared for them all in the name of \"being accepted.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Shreya Joshi, \"Ghislaine Maxwell and the pathological pick-me syndrome\", The Medium (University of Toronto Mississauga, 17 January 2022, page 6",
          "text": "A “pick-me” person is desperate for acceptance from a particular group and will do whatever it takes to gain access to certain social circles and remain there."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who acts against the interests of their own (typically marginalized) group in the hope of obtaining majority favour."
      ],
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        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "marginalized",
          "marginalized"
        ],
        [
          "majority",
          "majority"
        ],
        [
          "favour",
          "favour"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, derogatory, by extension) A person who acts against the interests of their own (typically marginalized) group in the hope of obtaining majority favour."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "derogatory",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "pick-me"
}