Yumpy
noun
Yumpies
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pluralof Yumpy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But the race could still be close: Connecticut has a large ethnic, blue-collar labor vote, and the Yumpies tend to be Republicans, who cannot cross over and vote in the Democratic primary.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Maryland, where Hart campaigned for barely half an hour, Mondale carried even the suburbs, home of Hart's usually loyal cadre of young, upwardly mobile professionals, the Yumpies.
From Time Magazine Archive
But now Boss seems to have found a market among the so-called Yumpies, the young, upwardly mobile professionals.
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Many Yumpies seem more interested in making money for themselves than in redistributing it to the poor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hart's appeal to a "new generation," his high-flown "new ideas" so seductive to the Yumpies of New England, fell flat among skeptical New Yorkers.
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