yuppie

noun

yup·​pie ˈyə-pē How to pronounce yuppie (audio)
often capitalized
: a young college-educated adult who is employed in a well-paying profession and who lives and works in or near a large city
yuppiedom adjective
yuppieish adjective

Examples of yuppie in a Sentence

Her friends are just a bunch of yuppies.
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Harron and Turner emphasize the comedy of '80s yuppie manners inside Ellis' orgy of bloodlust, highlighting its savage satire of toxic masculinity and consumer excess. Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025 Sophie’s Choice meets Cape Fear meets Greek mythology in this disturbing yuppies-in-peril thriller about a wealthy, respected doctor (Colin Farrell, reuniting with Lanthimos immediately after The Lobster) whose mistakes in the operating theater come back to haunt him. A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025 The historian Dylan Gottlieb has explained how Hoboken property owners torched hundreds of inhabited tenements and rooming houses to clear space for yuppies’ luxury apartments. Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025 The result, combined with vocal chops and a fondness for irony over sentimentality, merged yuppie rock fans, aging punk-rockers, Nashville regulars, and Tonight show viewers (where lang has appeared several times) into one of the broadest possible pop audiences. EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for yuppie

Word History

Etymology

probably from young urban professional + -ie

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of yuppie was in 1980

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“Yuppie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yuppie. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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