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Gatekeep meaning
To control or limit access to something. | To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much of a role another party, often a spouse, has in some task. | To limit another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, or overprotectiveness.
Example sentences (4)
For Boygenius, they wanted to honor those roots and the skills they’ve honed along the way — confessional lyrics sung in a tight-knit cadence, diaphanous vocals, textural guitar work — but remove the gatekeep-y coolness factor of indie-rock.
Don’t allow others to gatekeep you from visiting the destinations that you want to see.
It’s almost time for International Jazz Day — 30 April — and there will be events in 190 countries where it will not be necessary to gatekeep about who and what jazz is — the players and the listeners will just enjoy it.
Jey Uso is just there to gatekeep and may well soon be joined by Jimmy Uso and hopefully Naomi to make sure all divisions are accounted for.