yuppie

Related to yuppie: hipster, yuppie flu

yuppie

1. noun, informal An ambitious, well-educated young person who has a high-paying professional career and leads an affluent lifestyle. Cars like that would only ever be attractive to yuppies with too much money on their hands and not enough common sense. Oh, come off it, Darryl. You earn a six-figure-salary, you drive a Corvette, and you play squash on the weekends. You are the definition of a yuppie!
2. adjective, informal Of, describing, or indicating such a person. This used to be a funky, laid-back town, but it has been turning into a real yuppie hotspot ever since the tech boom in the late 2000s. Ah, the pumpkin spice latte—the yuppie drink of choice!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

yuppie

and yuppy (ˈjəpi)
1. n. a young urban professional. The yuppies are getting a lot of flack these days.
2. mod. having to do with yuppies. I don’t want to drive one of those yuppie cars.

yuppy

verb
See yuppie
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

yuppie

A young urban professional in his or her twenties or thirties with an affluent lifestyle. This acronymic term dates from the 1980s. Newsweek characterized 1984 as “the Year of the Yuppie.” The television series Thirtysomething, showing from 1987 to 1991, featured men and women in their thirties who fit the profile of yuppies. See also preppy; baby boomers.
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • yuppy
  • look alike
  • goose
  • goosed
  • high
  • high, wide, and handsome
  • wear (one's) apron high
  • turd
References in periodicals archive
Yet the actual process of attracting yuppies to new areas required more than realtors' steering and politicians waiting at the tax coffers.
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The double image of Patrick Bateman is constructed both within the novel and the film, and both media help to construct the double image of the yuppie and the serial killer--which, in the end, becomes actualized only in an empty symbol, a reflection.
American Psycho: a double portrait of serial yuppie Patrick Bateman
The only slight advantage to Anderson's method is his unintentionally nasty portrait of yuppie gentrifiers.
Streetwise: Race, Class and Change in an Urban Community
Hotchkin said the emerging yuppie market was most attractive and "wants to enjoy Pinot but if they wanted to gamble they'd go to Las Vegas.
Look to quality for the 1990s wine market
It stands for Myalgic encephalomyelitis but is also known as chronic fatigue and has been dubbed "yuppie flu".
MYSTERY ILLNESS
The yuppie's favourite accessory, the Filofax, came fourth in the poll followed by the films Dirty Dancing and The Goonies in joint fifth place.
Coolest decade? The 80s!
Yuppie accessory the Filofax came fourth, followed by the films Dirty Dancing and The Goonies.
80s the 'coolest decade'
IF FURTHER evidence was needed that yuppie fashionistas have jumped on football's bandwagon in recent years, Earl Spencer's family has provided it.
Are we there yet?
Champagne and cocktails epitomised the Yuppie lifestyle
Money: 80s Yuppies 'are now skint'
We have farmer's lung, tennis elbow, jogger's nipple, athlete's foot, bird fancier's lung, waiter's palsy, writer's cramp, dowager's hump, yuppie flu and many others.
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Sir - The report on Ian Woosnam's ill health in Tuesday's Western Mail - "Woosie battles back after 'yuppie flu" - shows that there is still an appalling level of ignorance in the media about ME.
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But John Early, chairman of AMEC Developments, which played a major part in transforming the Newcastle Quayside, insists North Shore is not just for the "yuppie set".
This way to the futurea
It says a lot about Foer that he supports Barca--or so he tells us." If you have liberal politics and yuppie tastes," he writes, "it isn't easy to find a corner of the soccer firmament that feels like home....
Wide world of sports: soccer mirrors globalization and its discontents
Now the nincompoops at City Hall have decided to do away with our Red House and build yuppie flats!
A yuppie is for life..