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yuppie
noun
an individual socially categorised as a young upwardly mobile professional US, 1982
An acronym, often used derogatively, probably coined by several people independently. Many lesser variations were spawned, but none with the holding power of yuppie. Variations include: BUPPIE/BUPPY (black upwardly mobile professional), “chuppy” (Chinese etc.), “puppy” (Punjabi etc.). These social groupings are the stuff of personal ads where you can find new, evermore contrived acronyms including, according to David Rowan, A Glossary for the 90s, 1998: SINBAD (single income, no boyfriend and absolutely desperate), SITCOM (single income, two children and an oppressive mortgage) and YAPPIE (young affluent parent).- Some are rich and healthy–Beverly with its mostly white population, Pill Hill with its mostly black professionals, Lincoln Park with its Yuppies (Young Urban Professionals). — Chicago Tribune, p. 1, 13th May 1981
- While he and Abbie Hoffman once led the Yippies–the Youth International Party–one social commentator has ventured that Rubin is now attempting to become the leader of the Yuppies–Young Urban Professionals. — Chicago Tribune, p. 4, 23 March 1983
- — Washington Post (reprinted from The Nation), p. C5, 22 December 1985
- — American Speech, Spring 1985
- And especially not by some slit-eyed yuppie who gets his salary paid out of Chronicle ad revenues and wallows (at company expense) in white wine and pesto in the finest high-dollar sports in San Francisco, Sonoma, and Tiburon. — Hunter S. Thompson, Songs of the Doomed, p. 252, 11 September 1987
- Let the goddamn yuppie Mormon affirmative action assholes handle it. — Point Break, 1991
- [M]ultimedia yuppies air kissing, swapping Web addresses and bragging about their kit[.] — Melanie McGrath, Hard, Soft & Wet, p. 166, 1998
- In the eighties, the satirical anti-yuppie film Wall Street backfired, and the Gordon Gecho remark that “greed is good” became a yuppie catchphrase. — Mark Steel, Reasons to be Cheerful, p. 165, 2001
- Ye shagged some yuppie in a nice hotel last night[.] — Ben Elton, High Society, p. 287, 2002
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