yuppie
or yup·py
[yuhp-ee]
- a young, ambitious, and well-educated city-dweller who has a professional career and an affluent lifestyle.
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Origin of yuppie
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Because in 1980, yuppie culture was just beginning to blossom.
If you met him in a bar, he might be all likkered up and decide he wants to kick your pasty, yuppie ass just for the hell of it.
I do realize this response makes me seem two-thirds boring and one-third yuppie, proportions that are, alas, accurate.
The specter of the yuppie is simply raised from time to time to remind the viewer of the "real" Bostonians' essential qualities.
And here Paul does appear to speak for his generation: He has given us the finest example yet of yuppie selfishness in senescence.
yuppie
yuppy
- an affluent young professional person
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- typical of or reflecting the values characteristic of yuppies
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Word Origin
C20: from y (oung) u (rban) or up (wardly mobile) p (rofessional) + -ie
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Word Origin and History for yuppie
1982, acronym from "young urban professional," ousting competition from yumpie (1984), from "young upward-mobile professional," and yap (1984), from "young aspiring professional." The word was felt as an insult by 1985.
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