preppie
- a variation of preppy.
Example Sentences
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A blind ex-colonel takes his preppie guide on a lust-for-life trip to New York.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2019
As I wrote in 2010: O’Keefe had carefully edited his tapes and left out, for example, that he was decked out in college preppie clothes, not pimp-wear.
From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2016
Bush said he was looking for, in his nasal preppie parlance.
From US News • Apr. 18, 2016
Examining Ivy alumni in the CIA of Buckley’s own time, Evan Thomas’ “The Very Best Men” attributed their foreign-policy blunders in Guatemala, Iran, Cuba and Vietnam to their preppie cohort’s cultivated cluelessness about much of the world.
From Salon • Jan. 13, 2016
Now, keep in mind that I hate hate hate using stereotypical terms like prep and preppie, but it is unavoidable.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
