yuppie
pronunciation
How to pronounce yuppie in British English:
UK ['jʌpɪ]
How to pronounce yuppie in American English:
US [ˈjʌpi]
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- Noun:
- a young upwardly mobile professional person; someone under 40 who prospered during the 1980s
Word Origin
- yuppie
- yuppie: [20] Yuppie is an acronym, formed in the USA from the initial letters of ‘young urban professional’. It came on the scene in 1984, and at first competed with yumpie (formed from ‘young upwardly mobile people’). It was yuppie which won out, and indeed has thrived to such an extent as to produce a whole range of (more or less ephemeral) clones such as buppie ‘black yuppie’, guppie ‘green [ecologically concerned] yuppie’, and Juppie ‘Japanese yuppie’.
- yuppie (n.)
- 1982, acronym from "young urban professional," ousting competition from yumpie (1984), from "young upward-mobile professional," and yap (1984), from "young aspiring professional." The word was felt as an insult by 1985.
Example
- 1. And we 've done the yuppie thing .
- 2. You begin to see why people call this the female yuppie heroin .
- 3. Soon , in fact , the word " yuppie " disappeared .
- 4. Yet between them the village shopkeepers and the yuppie shoppers are changing the economies of both their home countries and the globe .
- 5. Despite debilitating symptoms , patients have been accused of suffering from an imaginary illness : " yuppie flu " .