chin diaper

noun

An anti-coronavirus face mask when worn only under one's chin.

Meanings

nounchin diaper (plural chin diapers)

plural chin diapers

  1. derogatoryslangAn anti-coronavirus face mask when worn only under one's chin.

    People are still wearing chin diapers instead of masks—and throwing them off the second they sit at a restaurant table, like mortarboards at graduation.

    2020 December, Kevin Carlow, “On Cocktails”, in Coachella Valley Independent, page 36
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    Faculty need to politely ask their peers and students to pull masks above noses and keep their distance as much as possible. Allowing chin diapers in the middle of a full classroom poses an actual danger to the wearer's peers and community as a whole.

    2021, "We made it through the fall; let's do it again", The Hutchinson Collegian (Hutchinson Community College, Hutchinson, KS), 22 January 2021, page 2

    So anti-maskers stay home and watch Ancient Aliens or whatever you people do when you aren't putting lives at risk. I will gleefully have security throw you out if you show up with a chin diaper or your nose peeking out.

    2021, Kody Ford, "Editor's Note", The Idle Class, Spring 2021, page 4

Origin

From the jocular likening of a face mask worn on the chin to a diaper covering the buttocks. Coined in "The Pandemic Special", a 2020 episode of South Park.

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APA

chin diaper. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chin%20diaper

MLA

“chin diaper.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chin%20diaper. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chin diaper,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chin%20diaper.

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