The night before. the lottery, Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves made up the slips of paper and put them in the box, and it was. then taken to the safe of Mr. Summers' coal company and locked up until Mr. Summers was ready to take. it to the square next morning.
Full Definition of SURVIVALIST. : a person who advocates or practices survivalism; especially: one who has prepared to survive in the anarchy of an anticipated breakdown of society. â survivalist adjective. See survivalist defined for English-language learners.
For other uses, see Survival of the fittest (disambiguation). Herbert Spencer coined the phrase survival of the fittest. Survival of the fittest is a phrase that originated from Darwinian evolutionary theory as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection. The biological concept of fitness is defined as reproductive success.