Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A young city or suburban resident with a well-paid professional job and an affluent lifestyle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an ambitious young adult, usually college-educated, living in or near a large city, with a professional career and an affluent lifestyle. The "u" in the word is sometimes interpreted as meaning “upwardly mobile”.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun informal a
young upwardly mobile urban professional person with anaffluent lifestyle
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a young upwardly mobile professional individual; a well-paid middle-class professional who works in a city and has a luxurious life style
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It was 1971, well before the word yuppie had been coined, or wide acceptance of the principle that monetary success and value were synonyms.
A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009
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It was 1971, well before the word yuppie had been coined, or wide acceptance of the principle that monetary success and value were synonyms.
A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009
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It was 1971, well before the word yuppie had been coined, or wide acceptance of the principle that monetary success and value were synonyms.
A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009
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It was 1971, well before the word yuppie had been coined, or wide acceptance of the principle that monetary success and value were synonyms.
A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009
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It was 1971, well before the word yuppie had been coined, or wide acceptance of the principle that monetary success and value were synonyms.
A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009
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The term yuppie (short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional") refers to an 1980s and early 1990s term for financially secure, upper-middle class young people in their 20s and early 30s.
LA IMC 2009
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It saw rapid expansion as the niche became - in yuppie fashion - mainstream.
Starbucks to Double Its Purchase of Fair Trade Coffee in 2009 2008
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Guber, the quintessential New Age yuppie, is seen heading off his divorce because it would cost him too much, and participating in hand-holding group therapy sessions with business partner Peters.
Archive 2005-12-01 Ben Barren 2005
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Guber, the quintessential New Age yuppie, is seen heading off his divorce because it would cost him too much, and participating in hand-holding group therapy sessions with business partner Peters.
Gmail Web Clips Suck, but not OPML or its own Reader Ben Barren 2005
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Get ride of the entitled yuppie scum & self important egotists … Gilbert, where the buck are you from, california? new york? jeeze …
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