yuppie

Or yup·py

[yuhp-ee]

noun

plural

yuppies 

1. (often initial capital letter),  a young, ambitious, and well-educated city-dweller who has a professional career and an affluent lifestyle.

yuppie

/ ˈjʌpɪ /

noun

1. an affluent young professional person

adjective

1. typical of or reflecting the values characteristic of yuppies

Other Word Forms

• yuppiedom noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of yuppie¹

First recorded in 1980–85, y(oung) u(rban) p(rofessional) + -ie

Word History and Origins

Origin of yuppie¹

C20: from y ( oung ) u ( rban ) or up ( wardly mobile ) p ( rofessional ) + _-ie

Example Sentences

Dubbing it “the Californian Ideology,” they argued that the “new faith” blended the “freewheeling spirit of the hippies with the entrepreneurial zeal of the yuppies.”

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He said only a yuppie — “you know, those people who work in a bank during the day and only go to concerts at night” — would think he wasn’t.

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“Die yuppie scum” was one of the main slogans of my teen years, so in that context, it was not cool.

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Some doctors dismissed it as psychosomatic and called it “yuppie flu.”

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She leaned into her academic background, fashioning herself as a yuppie villain, wearing power suits and professing her admiration for Hillary Clinton, according to the WWE.

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