prepper

Someone who actively prepares for emergencies by having useful things on hand, such as extra water, food, medicine, fuel, and so on.

Noun

  1. Someone who actively prepares for emergencies by having useful things on hand, such as extra water, food, medicine, fuel, and so on.

    1. (extreme degree) A survivalist.

      • Preppers are keen not to be seen as survivalists – the stereotypically anti-government, wood-dwelling, gun-toting hermits of past decades. Rather than isolating themselves in preparation for Armageddon, preppers tend to...
      • After all, Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp says it was always meant to be a utility: “It’s a tool people use to plan their futures,” he told ReadWrite earlier this year. Preppers just happen to think the future looks...
      • Earlier today, I found myself taking it down and flicking through its index — “handcranked lanterns”; “pandemic”; “panic, avoidance of” — in a manner that felt remarkably different to how I had flicked through it in the...

Origin

From prep (“prepare”, verb) + -er.

Forms

preppers

Related

prepping

Noun UK, slang

  1. A student at a prep school.

    Synonyms: preppy

  2. A prep school.
    • ‘We have a vacancy at a very nice little prepper in North Yorkshire. Cundall Manor.’ - 2010, Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles:

Origin

From prep (“prep school”) + -er.

Forms

preppers