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
Examples of yuppie in a Sentence
Her friends are just a bunch of yuppies.
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The city was on the verge of bankruptcy and the glamorous yuppie thing was a very small bubble.
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Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
Far more people hated yuppies, and everything the yuppie stood for, than wanted to be yuppies, of course.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
The Winters are an innocuously attractive and devoted yuppie couple lent little distinguishing personality here by performers or script.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 29 Oct. 2024
Culture Club’s Boy George, Annie Lennox of Eurythmics, and Dead or Alive’s Pete Burns blurred the lines of sexuality and gender while challenging the yuppie preppiness that preceded the height of their fame.
—Juan Velasquez, Them, 11 Oct. 2024
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Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
Far more people hated yuppies, and everything the yuppie stood for, than wanted to be yuppies, of course.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
The Winters are an innocuously attractive and devoted yuppie couple lent little distinguishing personality here by performers or script.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 29 Oct. 2024
Culture Club’s Boy George, Annie Lennox of Eurythmics, and Dead or Alive’s Pete Burns blurred the lines of sexuality and gender while challenging the yuppie preppiness that preceded the height of their fame.
—Juan Velasquez, Them, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Yuppie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yuppie. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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