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.
Recent Examples on the Web
Arguably, the film is a sly satire of ’80s yuppies and the baby-boomers who abandoned their values to chase the stock market.
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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
And at Zero Bond, yuppies can, ironically or unironically, sip on a drink called the Trillionaire.
—Anna Kodé, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
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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
And at Zero Bond, yuppies can, ironically or unironically, sip on a drink called the Trillionaire.
—Anna Kodé, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
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“Yuppie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yuppie. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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