Meanings
plural lockdowners
- 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 TimesAntonyms: anti-lockdowner
- 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
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA person who supports lockdown measures (especially during the COVID-19 pandemic).
Origin
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lockdowner. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lockdowner
“lockdowner.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lockdowner. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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