Definitions
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- noun   The lifestyle or attitudes of 
yuppies . 
Etymologies
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yuppie + -ism
			
		
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Examples
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Yes, for here was one of the final strongholds of true yuppieism, a place where man was free to practice the religion of eighties greed, greed at all costs, without pretense of doing otherwise.
Drop Shot Coben, Harlan, 1962- 1996
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Yes, for here was one of the final strongholds of true yuppieism, a place where man was free to practice the religion of eighties greed, greed at all costs, without pretense of doing otherwise.
Drop Shot Coben, Harlan, 1962- 1996
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Materialistic yuppieism is just the surface of New Age hedonism.
 
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