preppy
noun
a person who is a student at or a graduate of a preparatory school.
preppies
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pluralof preppy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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I thought of my public-school classmates, buying boat shoes at the mall, as preppies.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2019
“It wasn’t like we were a bunch of vapid preppies, but God, we were preppy then.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2018
Light-pink-colored swim shorts have the flashy flair of Sonny Crockett from TV show “Miami Vice,” while pinkish denim harks back to preppies with their fondness for eye-searing trousers to match their Madras cocktails.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2017
Generally civil debates began to break out, with the page’s editors disagreeing about everything from whether preppies would mismatch their socks to the age after which one stops qualifying as a hipster.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2015
But then, he hadn’t gotten along with preppies or jocks either, or with the school’s administrators.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
