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yuppie
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Word definitions for yuppie in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1982, acronym from "young urban professional," ousting competition from yumpie (1984), from "young upward-mobile professional," and yap (1984), from "young aspiring professional." The word was felt as an insult by 1985.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a young upwardly mobile professional person; someone under 40 who prospered during the 1980s
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
yuppie \yup"pie\, yuppy \yup"py\(y[u^]p"p[y^]), n. [young urban professional + -ie.] an ambitious young adult, usually college-educated, living in or near a large city, with a professional career and an affluent lifestyle. The "u" in the word is sometimes ...
Usage examples of yuppie.
The sisters were busy with their toddlers doing that Yuppie shuffle of day care for the abysmally affluent.
Though technically nice looking in a conservative, yuppie sort of way, her fiancé appeared serious and professorial with his six-foot-four lanky frame and wire-rimmed glasses.
The college kids hang out in large numbers but so do a lot of sharply dressed, unseasoned yuppies from the nearby high rises.
And it all works, and Alves goes to Cedar Junction and everybody else gets back to being a yuppie.
No ski area here, no espresso stands, no yuppies telecommuting from Elk Springs.
Nowadays its hundred or so blocks were the bright and lively haunt of alcoholics, agnostics, artists, atheists, beggars, cutthroats, deserters, drug dealers, evangelists, footpads, gentry, heathens, informers, jays, knife grinders, lesbians, libertines, mollyboys, musicians, navvies, ostlers, physicians, queers, recruiters, reformers, sailors, socialists, trulls, users, vagabonds, watchmakers, xenophiles, and yuppies.
There was a famous case in Philadelphia in the Eighties: a yuppie drug dealer skipped bail with his wife and child and swept his trail so clean that a yearlong, coast-to-coast manhunt came up empty.
Regiment, he would have been a yuppie or a spy--albeit in a Crimplene suit.
And perhaps her rejection of love, her sublimation of desire, and her decision to view the life of her heart in terms of an emotional IRA, a long-term yuppie investment, choosing the security of what she could endure over the potentials of hopemaybe that was all of which she was capable.
You see these idiots getting nabbed in police sweeps on the nightly newsblue-collar guys, professionals, Yuppies, college kids.
Always leaving the same signatureGaiathe buzzword of yuppie ecology, the science of global issues, global weather, the global village.
Blaine was a pure po-gue, a guy who got himself promoted off the street as soon as he became eligible, and had immediately latched on to the coattails of his predecessor, a bloodless, bean-counting Yuppie paper-pusher named Spier.
Life was getting tough for the battlers, even the middle-class yuppies.
The editing (a strength of the first two films) is inconsistent, as is the CGI, and cutting Saruman from the final third of the trilogy was not a terrific idea—without Christopher Lee to put a human face on evil, we are left with the Sauron's-flaming-eye dealie, which comes to acquire all the menace of one of those decorative electronic objets d'excess income that can be ordered from yuppie catalogs.
Lawrence owned for generations by the gray nuns, but recently colonized by an order of Yuppies.