preppy
noun
a person who is a student at or a graduate of a preparatory school.
preppie
-
a variation of
preppy.
Example Sentences
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A preppie and her protest-loving neighbor reluctantly team up to make their ex-partners jealous.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2021
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
It did not feel preppie, stuffy, or conformist.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
