Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (Aus./US) one who prepares for an extreme situation.

2020		G. Disher Consolation 83: Leon had turned weird a while back and gone all doomsday prepper.
2021		T. Pluck Boy from County Hell 317: His compound was on a big piece of land with a barred gate and a berm built around it as a defense against both water and attack. A prepper’s paradise.
2023		A. Nette Orphan Road 65: ‘I’m not a Nazi, Carl, or some crazy doomsday prepper. I’m a racial realist’.

2. a preparatory school + sfx -er sfx² (1)

2024

J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 134: Most of my muckers at preppers had dadas who were just as queer as Dada, even queerer.