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lockdowner en · NOUN

Etymology

From lockdown + -er.

Meanings

1. A person who supports lockdown measures (especially during the COVID-19 pandemic).
   • If we’re hoping to adjudicate what seems like a forever war between lockdowners and let-it-rippers, it probably helps to recall what first-year pandemic policy looked like — and how much of what we might remember as policy was really just pandemic. 2023 January 4, David Wallace-Wells, “9 Pandemic Narratives We’re Getting Wrong”, in The New York Times:
2. A person whose movements and activities are limited by a lockdown (especially during the COVID-19 pandemic).
   • Why Apple fell in love with its own creation here is understandable. You can zoom about this map of apps like a holiday-starved lockdowner browsing Google Maps, and it lets you zoom right into apps with a final twist of the crown. 2021 September 13, Andrew Williams, “Don’t redesign the Apple Watch, fix all this instead”, in Wired UK:

Forms

Antonyms

anti-lockdowner