preppern.1
/ˈprɛpə/, U.S. /ˈprɛpər/ U.S. School slang and College slang.
A student at a prep school (prep school n. 1), esp. one who is a member of a sports team.
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society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > team or group > member of > types of
passenger1852
scrub1892
prepper1922
pick1948
reserve grade1950
1922 Woodland (Calif.) Daily Democrat 29 Nov. 8/3 The ‘preppers’ are out to show the Carlton Club boys that they are just the niftiest bunch of school footballers in the valley.
1945 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 10 Oct. 18/4 (heading) T[homas] J[efferson High School] leads off heavy slate for preppers.
1974 Anderson (S. Carolina) Independent 19 Apr. 5 b/3 Audie.., one of the nation's most coveted preppers, is reported to be considering North Carolina State, Illinois, Oregon, Purdue and UCLA.
2004 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 27 May z5–14 As a prepper, the 5-foot-6 Flaute once dominated the Mid-Miami League's 3,200-meters, taking three championships.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
preppern.2
/ˈprɛpə/, U.S. /ˈprɛpər/ British School slang.
= prep school n. 2.
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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > primary school
under-school1629
primer schoola1680
proseminary1774
primary school1792
dame-schoola1817
pettya1827
ma'am-school1838
elementary school1841
primary1851
prep school1862
minding-school1864
junior school1871
tother school1881
marm school1889
preparatory1904
terakoya1909
prep1924
prepper1956
1956 ‘M. Innes’ Appleby plays Chicken i. i. 16 My public school was..nothing to my prepper.
1962 ‘R. Gordon’ Doctor in Swim xi. 73 ‘Actually, I'm a stinks beak in a prepper,’ he confessed.
1991 S. Fry Liar (1992) xiii. 362 Taught at some prepper in Norfolk.
2004 Times 13 Nov. 29 Little Samson has been promoted to Remove at his prepper.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
preppern.3
/ˈprɛpə/, U.S. /ˈprɛpər/ 1. A person who or thing which prepares or readies something; a preparer. Also with modifying word specifying the thing prepared.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > [noun] > maker or manufacturer
maker1297
workera1382
preparatorc1485
opificer1548
preparer1553
manufactora1649
opifex1649
manufacturera1687
faker1688
fabricant1756
fabricator1863
prepper1970
1970 Mademoiselle July 26/2 Starting with preppers to apply preshave.
1984 Newsweek (Nexis) 24 Oct. 30 The president's preppers are determined to transform the numbers-cruncher of Louisville back into the familiar Great Communicator of vision and pretty word pictures.
2000 Atlanta (Ga.) Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 24 Sept. (Job Guide) 1 r Intent on leaving behind his job as a paint prepper to move into a career in information technology.
2010 Financial Times 13 Feb. (Life & Arts section) 4/5 Just beyond is a literal dinner-as-theatre spectacle, as Hergatt conducts more than a dozen choppers, preppers and chefs while diners dig in barely inches away.
2. Originally U.S. A person who anticipates a catastrophic disaster or emergency occurring on a local or global scale and actively prepares for it, typically by learning survival skills, preparing to become self-sufficient, and stockpiling food, ammunition, and other supplies. Recorded earliest with modifying word.
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1998 Re: This Group in alt.y2k.end-of-the-world (Usenet newsgroup) 7 Aug. Hello fellow y2k preppers... We are preparing ourselves by attending Preparedness Expos (held across the country), laying in gradually-building supplies of non-perishables, purchasing weapons and ammo and practicing shooting up in the mountains when we can.
2009 J. W. Rawles How to survive End of World as we know It ix. 191 I highly recommend that all preppers at the very minimum buy a shortwave radio and a multiband police scanner.
2015 Amer. Survival Guide Nov. 34/2 Buying or constructing a bunker or bug-out retreat is a big step for any prepper.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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