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US
/ˈjəpi/
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[ UK /jˈuːpi/ ]
[ UK /jˈuːpi/ ]
NOUN
- a young upwardly mobile professional individual; a well-paid middle-class professional who works in a city and has a luxurious life style
How To Use yuppie In A Sentence
- The vast majority of its members playacting as class warriors are well-heeled yuppies. The Sun
- This attracted the yuppies (and the liberal artsy types), who have been slowly gentrifying the town for the past 20 odd years.
- Or dumping enough toxic plastic waste into the ocean that it forms huge islands of yuck as far as the eye can see so Yuppies can drink pints of filtered tap water in throw-away bottles just to prove how Yuppie-fied they are. Channeling Religious Impulses
- Also known as yupster (yuppie + hipster), yindie (yuppie + indie), and alterna-yuppie. Archive 2006-04-01
- Across the street, half a dozen guys spilled out of a yuppie bar, two of them mouthing off at each other, the others watching. NEW YORK DEAD
- Even while electrifying the cosmopolite yuppies with hard rock, heavy metal and thrash metal, he has pop and slow rock numbers in plenty in his quiver.
- Though it mostly consisted of what one would have called yuppies in another time... SF Connect 2: We're Doers Not Critics
- That does seem to be the important push these days - convincing people that sustainable food, clothing, practices etc. are more mainstream than the traditional image of unwashed hippies eating lentils while wearing hemp in their off-the-grid log cabin - or the more modern but still unappealing yuppie couple who ride bicycles everywhere, use cloth diapers and recycle their dishwater, and eat tofurky. Stylish and sustainable
- Perhaps that was you, the pudgy little yuppie-boy, who wouldn't budge even an inch to let me get a drink at the bar?
- There were even people playing football in the yuppie village this evening.