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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.
Big Deal: How I Do It My Way Trump, Donald 1987
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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.
Nelson George: Black Hollywood: 1991 vs. 2011 Nelson George 2011
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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.
Nelson George: Black Hollywood: 1991 vs. 2011 Nelson George 2011
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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.
Nelson George: Black Hollywood: 1991 vs. 2011 Nelson George 2011
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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.
Nelson George: Black Hollywood: 1991 vs. 2011 Nelson George 2011
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Though it mostly consisted of what one would have called yuppies in another time...
SF Connect 2: We're Doers Not Critics sfmike 2006
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Though it mostly consisted of what one would have called yuppies in another time...
Archive 2006-08-01 sfmike 2006
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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.
Latest News 2010
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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.
Latest News 2010
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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).
dispatch.com: RSS 2010
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