yuppie

noun

yup·​pie ˈyə-pē 

variants often Yuppie

: 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

ˈyə-pē-dəm 

adjective

yuppieish

ˈyə-pē-ish 

adjective

Examples of yuppie in a Sentence

Her friends are just a bunch of yuppies.

Recent Examples on the Web

How military designs trickled down from the soldiers on the front lines to the hippies on the war protest line to the yuppies in line at Banana Republic. —Luis Gallo, NPR, 10 Dec. 2025

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

Word History

Etymology

probably from young urban professional + -ie

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing yuppie

• yuppie flu

Rhymes for yuppie

• guppy
• puppy