a young upwardly mobile professional individual; a well-paid middle-class professional who works in a city and has a luxurious life style
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yuppie::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | professional, professional person |
Examples of yuppie
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His early days saw him typecast as a yuppie funster, but then Magnolia happened.
From the couriermail.com.au
These were cars with more than a whiff of the yuppie era speculator about them.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Some non-yuppie markets draw shoppers and some don't, the Globe piece points out.
From the theatlantic.com
Of course, this has been billed as the ultimate triumph of the yuppie-moonbat set.
From the boston.com
It's a punk-rock yuppie-infested rockabilly hippy-fied drag show of a neighborhood.
From the charlotteobserver.com
A woman on the run in a backwater called Buzzsaw waylays a fast-track yuppie.
From the post-gazette.com
A yuppie Jimmy Stewart, Nick is proud to be the most despised man in America.
From the economist.com
A 2004 A-B ad that shows a pedigreed dog fetching a Bud Light for his yuppie owner.
From the usatoday.com
When I opened my restaurant I was catering to the Orange County yuppie motorcyclist.
From the ocregister.com
- A young upwardly mobile professional individual; a well-paid middle-class professional who works in a city and has a luxurious life style
- Young urban professional; a young person who makes a lot of money and usually lives in the city.
- A young and educated trader characterized by his success in markets.
- Short for Young Urban Professional, was coined in the late 1970s to describe baby boomers who never entered or those who left the counterculture to pursue professional careers. ...
- (acronym) young urban professional. The term was coined in the early 1980s or prior partly out of class conflict and hatred of rising materialistic values especially within inner city areas.
- Commonly used term to describe a lifestyle-based market segment consisting of "young, urban professionals".
