"gate-keepy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2018 November 19, David Escobedo, “Tabletop game shop welcomes players”, in The BG News, Bowling Green State University, page 12",
          "text": "\"Something that has always bothered me about this kind of hobby is that there is, of course the occasional person ... who gets kinda gatekeepy with the hobby. Part of the tabletop culture ... is the community of it. So why would you want ... people scared away from enjoying your hobby? […]",
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          "text": "And I think that was really helpful because it was respectful to me and my gender to not be like gatekeepy or anything like that."
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          "ref": "2019, Tyler, quoted in Jacyie Weeks, \"The Las Vegas Gaymers\", Therapy, December 2019, page 18",
          "text": "I know that a lot of people in the queer community have had concerns with queer groups being gate-keepy or not being open to anyone who isn’t a cis white male, […]"
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        "Engaging in, characteristic of, or related to gatekeeping."
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        "(informal) Engaging in, characteristic of, or related to gatekeeping."
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          "ref": "2018 November 19, David Escobedo, “Tabletop game shop welcomes players”, in The BG News, Bowling Green State University, page 12",
          "text": "\"Something that has always bothered me about this kind of hobby is that there is, of course the occasional person ... who gets kinda gatekeepy with the hobby. Part of the tabletop culture ... is the community of it. So why would you want ... people scared away from enjoying your hobby? […]",
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        "(informal) Engaging in, characteristic of, or related to gatekeeping."
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