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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The truth is that developers will soon turn Dirty into a yuppie playscape where brick is painted white, and then it’s draped in vines. Ramon Ramirez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 More likely, Lorde is just trying to lend enchantment to her 21st-century yuppie routine. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 June 2025 If polyamory feels like a fashionable subplot for Bechdel to tackle, this is only because heterosexuals have recently discovered in it a promising balm for yuppie malaise. Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 16 June 2025 Bateman's seething anger at having his card bested by that of his colleague Paul Allen (Jared Leto), despite the two cards looking almost identical, satirized the vacuous materialism of 1980s yuppie culture. New Atlas, 9 June 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 8 Jul. 2025.

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