Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A young city or suburban resident with a well-paid professional job and an affluent lifestyle.
Wiktionary
- n. informal a young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. an ambitious young adult, usually college-educated, living in or near a large city, with a professional career and an affluent lifestyle. The "u" in the word is sometimes interpreted as meaning “upwardly mobile”.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a young upwardly mobile professional individual; a well-paid middle-class professional who works in a city and has a luxurious life style
Etymologies
- y(oung) u(rban) p(rofessional), influenced by yippie. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It was 1971, well before the word yuppie had been coined, or wide acceptance of the principle that monetary success and value were synonyms.”
“The term yuppie (short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional") refers to an 1980s and early 1990s term for financially secure, upper-middle class young people in their 20s and early 30s.”
“It saw rapid expansion as the niche became - in yuppie fashion - mainstream.”
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“Guber, the quintessential New Age yuppie, is seen heading off his divorce because it would cost him too much, and participating in hand-holding group therapy sessions with business partner Peters.”
“Get ride of the entitled yuppie scum & self important egotists … Gilbert, where the buck are you from, california? new york? jeeze …”
“Anyway, still reeling from this encounter, I entered a popular "yuppie"-themed grocery store in order to secure provisions for my wife and infant son, who my ruthless publisher Chronicle are forcing me to leave behind:”
“The hollow 1980s yuppie is now the country’s worst nightmare — a remorseless serial killer who kills for fun.”
“Her overbearingly entitled yuppie brother, Beau (Craig Wallace), clumsily pitches a tent near Johnnie's with girlfriend-of-the-moment Shavondra (Fatima Quander), a clotheshorse who would flee nature faster than you can say "American Express.”
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“And that bothered me, because it almost made me seem like what once would have been called a yuppie, but I guessed I could have been called, mixing centuries and descriptions, a Calvinistic flash.”
“Mr. Towers finds it unusual that a yuppie should be a former English major in Columbia and that I do not know how real Yuppies talk.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yuppie’.
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Contemporary character classes?
as a youth I, and some others, made a pen-and-paper RPG, based in contemporary crime and suspense fiction + nonfiction, set in America's blighted urban centers, anonymous slurbs, and godforsaken hi...
acrobat, actor, anarchist, arsonist, artist, bagman, accountant, adrenaline junkie, airplane pilot, anti-racist skinhead, art student, assassin and 192 more...
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Vuppies
Various urban professionals, and other such pies. (related to wealth, labor, class, etc.)
yuppie, duppie, luppie, yettie, skippie, huppie, scuppie, yupster, buppie, guppie, yippie, zippie and 65 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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niglets, aw, flakey, shiznit, thatch, sexy, bummers, hotty, eargasms, ratchetry, weird, fab and 597 more... -
Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 3063 more... -
generationnext's Words
petulant, vehement, pensive, lascivious, vacillate, histrionic, satiated, svelte, lithe, zeitgeist, viscous, sommelier and 526 more...
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hedges's Words
wii, crepuscule, adumbrate, concatenation, sufi, qawwali, furry, riot, mellifluous, conspiracy, etymology, tea cozy and 369 more...
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savage215's Words
pipe, yankee, knickerbocker, tennis, plasma, magma, volcano, car, truck, television, tv, word and 445 more...
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favorite words
ennui, bonhomie, eschew, liaison, serendipity, lovely, dusk, kitten, epitome, sexy, beloved, darling and 396 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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spoon's Words
tuffet, spoon, eigenvalue, eigenvector, eigenspace, stoked, orgy, nonagon, humanitarian, life, cheesesteak, nice and 78 more...
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
nepenthe, phrontistery, peregrination, pervicacious, sinistrality, phallogocentric, prolixity, leptokurtic, ineffable, haecceity, lucubration, vicissitudes and 1026 more...
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Retroliterals
Words having the letters in reverse alphabetically order. Only words of six or more letters are listed here. For alphabetical order see Alphaliterals. See uoiea and yuoiea for words and phrases wit...
jigged, ligged, miffed, pigged, polked, polled, pollee, pommie, ponged, pongee, ponied, poohed and 75 more...
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Climbing the company ladder
No job is too small.
blue-collar worker, dogsbody, blackleg, drudge, white-collar worker, worker-bee, bottom dog, cog, salaryman, pen-pusher, pencil pusher, paper-pusher and 26 more...
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