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  • noun slang The condition of being a yuppie.

Etymologies

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yuppie +‎ -dom

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Examples

  • It's just comforting to me to know that not all of the original hippies were lost to yuppiedom dumb?

    Let Us All Now Praise Hippies Anne Johnson 2009

  • The story is the clash between two subcultures educated and refined Romantic yuppiedom and the 'flash mob' that the picture card illustrates.

    Boing Boing: July 9, 2006 - July 15, 2006 Archives 2006

  • We did change the world even though some of us grew up and edited our values or sold them out in the end, becoming revised editions of the people we once railed against -- or zealous consumers who yipped our material yuppiedom by the light of our silvery BMWs.

    Beth Arnold: Where's the Outrage? 2008

  • I've never been someone who aspired to white picket fence yuppiedom, because that's what I grew up with, and here's the secret: my parents were miserable.

    Psychology of Young Scientist Depression 2006

  • I personally hate those attention grabbing hovels of yuppiedom.

    outfoxed Diary Entry outfoxed 2005

  • "Biocentric yuppiedom versus the West" is the title of Larry Auster's latest post on my failings.

    "Biocentric yuppiedom versus the West" Steve Sailer 2005

  • "Biocentric yuppiedom versus the West" is the title of Larry Auster's latest post on my failings.

    Archive 2005-10-23 Steve Sailer 2005

  • Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog: "Biocentric yuppiedom versus the West"

    "Biocentric yuppiedom versus the West" Steve Sailer 2005

  • Perhaps you tried out a stint on Wall Street during the merger-mania yuppiedom of the 1980s?

    Forbes.com: News 2011

  • Perhaps you tried out a stint on Wall Street during the merger-mania yuppiedom of the 1980s?

    Forbes.com: News Sheri Caplan 2011

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