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- noun Plural form of
yuppie .
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Examples
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The second group of tenants consists of what I call the yuppies: younger professional people — stockbrokers and journalists and attorneys.
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Crack culture made the inner city a perfect setting for crime dramas, while there was a general acknowledgment that black yuppies aka buppies were a market worth tapping.
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Crack culture made the inner city a perfect setting for crime dramas, while there was a general acknowledgment that black yuppies aka buppies were a market worth tapping.
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Crack culture made the inner city a perfect setting for crime dramas, while there was a general acknowledgment that black yuppies aka buppies were a market worth tapping.
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Crack culture made the inner city a perfect setting for crime dramas, while there was a general acknowledgment that black yuppies aka buppies were a market worth tapping.
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Though it mostly consisted of what one would have called yuppies in another time...
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Though it mostly consisted of what one would have called yuppies in another time...
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Besides OFWs, the profile of homebuyers is diversifying to include the so-called yuppies who are employed in fast-moving technology companies as well as international finance firms, not to mention the moneyed individuals-both native as well as foreign-who have learned to invest their surplus capital in real estate.
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Besides OFWs, the profile of homebuyers is diversifying to include the so-called yuppies who are employed in fast-moving technology companies as well as international finance firms, not to mention the moneyed individuals-both native as well as foreign-who have learned to invest their surplus capital in real estate.
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Imagine a 50-foot-tall pair of what we once called yuppies, stepping forward in the familiar manner of the lawn jockey (an ante-bellum lawn ornament that sensitive rich people began replacing in the late 1980s with concrete geese).
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