chin diaper

English

Etymology

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

Noun

chin diaper (plural chin diapers)

1. (slang, derogatory) An anti-coronavirus facemask when worn only under one's chin.
   • 2020 December, Kevin Carlow, “On Cocktails”, in Coachella Valley Independent, page 36:

     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.

   • 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:

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

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:chin diaper.