prepper

noun

1. (UK, slang)A student at a prep school.
2. (UK, slang)A prep school.

   “‘We have a vacancy at a very nice little prepper in North Yorkshire. Cundall Manor.’”

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

   “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 have normal jobs, mingle with their communities and take a more relaxed view about looming disasters.”

   “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 bleak.”

   “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 past. The themes and motifs of the prepper movement are having a moment in the mainstream.”

   “The preppers were living in flush times in a beautiful region, but it seemed like the first thing they did with money was steel for the apocalypse.”