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  • noun UK, slang A student at a prep school.
  • noun UK, slang Prep school.

Etymologies

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From prep (in prep school) + -er.

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Examples

  • For a survivalist, "prepper" or even casually concerned citizen preparing for some sort of unknown future disaster, water, food, guns/ammo, fuel, backpacks, etc. are all high on the packing list.

    SurvivalBlog.com 2010

  • Many accessories are available including rails for scopes including red dot scopes, adjustable stocks with pistol grips, muzzle brakes and flash hiders, and for the really serious "prepper" even a bayonet lug for that dreaded worst case.

    SurvivalBlog.com Rawles James Wesley 2010

  • Pennington is a "prepper", a growing social movement that has been dubbed Survivalism Lite.

    Signs of the Times 2010

  • Many accessories are available including rails for scopes including red dot scopes, adjustable stocks with pistol grips, muzzle brakes and flash hiders, and for the really serious "prepper" even a bayonet lug for that dreaded worst case.

    SurvivalBlog.com Rawles James Wesley 2010

  • Other examples of commercial property use is in the planning of cache locations and in situations where you may need to bunker down with your family or "prepper" network during trying times.

    SurvivalBlog.com 2009

  • I have moved in various "prepper" circles now over the past few years.

    Flu Wiki Forum - Front Page 2009

  • I have moved in various "prepper" circles now over the past few years.

    Flu Wiki Forum - Front Page 2009

  • If you're a parent, you may have already counted up the number of active verbs connected to the app, two grafs ago; Adapster does this and does that, just like an old-fashioned humanoid prepper.

    Karen Stabiner: The College Insider: Admissions Freak-Out Countdown #10: Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide, As Test-Prep Puts The App In Applicant 2010

  • Bruce Reed: President of the DLC and Hillary debate prepper who recently had the unwelcome spot light shined on him for feeding Hillary the cringe-worthy "Change you can Xerox" line.

    Hillary And Obama Camps Duke It Out Over Her Alleged "Screw 'Em" Comment 2009

  • If test prep can make Spencer Hawes look quicker than Kevin Durant, maybe it is making upper-middle class test prepper seem more promising than inner city cold test taker.

    Matthew Yglesias » Durant at the Bench Press 2007

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  • "Stevens' book, Making the Best of Basics, may be the closest thing the survival industry has to a bible (aside from the actual Bible). It has sold more than 800,000 copies since hitting the shelves at Kmart during the gas crisis in 1974. Stevens is not actually a doctor, and, come to think of it, he'd rather you not call him a prepper which he considers a slur meant to impugn self-reliant folks like himself as paranoid loons. But it's become part of [the lexicon, and Stevens is somewhat paranoid about where the United States is headed (he foresees a borderline tyrannical second Obama term that begins with massive gun confiscation and ends who-knows-where), so he's rolling with it."

    - Tim Murphy, Preppers Are Getting Ready for the Barackalypse, motherjones.com, Jan/Feb 2013.

    December 24, 2012

  • prepper, n.

    Vice, 11 October 2015:

    Those who make it their business to equip themselves for a civilization-ending mega-disaster—a.k.a. preppers—are sometimes stereotyped as wild-eyed tinfoil hat wearers who live outside of society, but Vicino caters to survivalists whose fears are backed up by money. The San Diego businessman is gunning to be the vanguard of a multibillion-dollar industry. If we're to follow the entrepreneur's logic, the rich don't live on the same scale as ordinary people in today's society—why should that change after the end of the world?

    October 15, 2015