yuppie

noun

yup·pie ˈyə-pē

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

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 The director’s early films play like yuppie action pictures, with shrill arguments in dark rooms standing in for traditional action set pieces. —

Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 27 June 2024 Arguably, the film is a sly satire of ’80s yuppies and the baby-boomers who abandoned their values to chase the stock market. —

Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2024 What this means is that the Cage character has to hit bottom to purge himself, to come out the other side of his pain and his yuppie dream. —

Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 May 2024 Her style becomes an edgy liberation fantasy for Rosanna Arquette's yuppie housewife Roberta—not to mention the film's Reagan-era audience. —

Ew Staff, EW.com, 7 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for yuppie

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