yuppie
or yup·py
(often initial capital letter) a young, ambitious, and well-educated city-dweller who has a professional career and an affluent lifestyle.
Origin of yuppie
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How to use yuppie in a sentence
The sad fact is that in American cities, poor people—not hipsters or yuppies—constitute the fastest-growing population.
Poverty and Growth: Retro-Urbanists Cling to the Myth of Suburban Decline | Joel Kotkin, Wendell Cox | May 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn rapidly gentrifying northwest D.C., there are few places where yuppies and longtime locals happily mix.
The Target Effect, or, How Big Box Is Bringing Washington D.C. Together | Dan Mizrachi | May 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThere are even things to do for yuppies with odd priorities.
They easily blended in among the aging hippies, well-groomed yuppies, and Hollywood actors.
"The yuppies are coming," a cop complains in Mystic River, like a 21st-century Paul Revere.
British Dictionary definitions for yuppie
yuppy
/ (ˈjʌpɪ) /
an affluent young professional person
typical of or reflecting the values characteristic of yuppies
Origin of yuppie
1Derived forms of yuppie
- yuppiedom, noun
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