yuppie


Also found in: Dictionary, Financial, Acronyms, Idioms, Wikipedia.
Related to yuppie: hipster, yuppie flu
Graphic Thesaurus  🔍
Display ON
Animation ON
Legend
Synonym
Antonym
Related
  • noun

Words related to yuppie

a young upwardly mobile professional individual

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
References in periodicals archive ?
Following cities like Hoboken, a number of American urban politicians recognized the potential of attracting yuppies as well.
That's correct," says the yuppie. "How did you guess that?"
Like the trend-setting original, which became a favourite of young upwardly mobile professionals - Yuppies - during the 80s, Penny Blacks will focus on fine wine and premium continental lagers.
Bateman embodies both the well-groomed image of the Wall Street yuppie and the gruesome image of the serial killer.
Fifteen canines participated in several events, including a puppy parade, pet tricks and a yuppie puppy buffet complete with gourmet dog treats.
Meanwhile, Ben's brother Van (Adrien Brody) has a crush on yuppie Dubbie (Carolyn Murphy) which is equally doomed.
As a result of this enormous bubble, a lovely, very mixed, neighbourhood is undergoing the throes of homogenization, rapidly becoming just another yuppie paradise.
Other Off-Broadway shows that prospered during a summer when Broadway quietly strove to maintain its status quo included the boisterous Cowgirls, with its cheerful country-and-western twang and a cast of six women of strong musical talents, and the brightly paced I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, a revue dwelling on the fits, misfits, and sometimes outfits of two yuppie couples.
* Five Brothers Mushroom, the lowest-sodium of Ragu's six-flavor yuppie line, was still too high.
The author sees renewed social divisions around types of foods consumed, highlighted through new yuppie gourmandise, and of course new gender issues about food preparation as additional targets for the final quarter-century of this coverage.
He points out middle-class black residents' discomfort at being taken for street blacks; yuppie whites' tendencies to indulge among themselves in ritual horror narratives about "them" and crime; long-term progressive white residents' contempt for the yuppies' fear and materialism; and the special access all blacks have to "getting ignorant" as a means of deterring potential danger.
"The so-called yuppie who used to dine out four or five times a week, now goes out once a week.
If you're a Young Upwardly Mobile Professional (Yuppie), Black Upwardly Mobile Professional (Buppie) or a Jewish-American Princess (JAP), can you really identify with the starving children in the Sudan?
The disorder has been dubbed the "Yuppie plague" because it is often diagnosed in professional women in their 20s and 30s.