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Yuppie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term yuppie (short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional") refers to a market segment whose consumers are characterized as self-reliant, financially secure individu...
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Look at that yuppie flaunting his wealth. Most of the characters in American Psycho derived from Young Upcoming Professional, or YUP --> "yuppie" became the natural colloquialisation. Derogatory 80s term to describe a 'new breed' of young, wealthy people,
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Last month Harper's ran a story announcing the fact under the coverline: "Return of the yuppie... and yes, that probably means you!" Once upon a time being called a yuppie made 30-something professionals shudder. Yuppie ("Young Urban Professional") was a byword for greed, self-absorption and a lack of a social conscience.
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Definition of yuppie in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of yuppie. Pronunciation of yuppie. Translations of yuppie. yuppie synonyms, yuppie antonyms. Information about yuppie in the free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. yuppies, yuppie flu Noun 1. yuppie - a young upwardly mobile professional individual;
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"Yuppie promptly went into a moral free fall that continued long after Reagan was re-elected. In a Roper Poll taken in 1985, which found that 60 percent of adult Americans knew roughly what yuppies were (an impressive total, considering, for example, that only 34 percent know who is Secretary of State), six times as many...
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Single Woman Earning Lots Of Loot (Miss Yuppie) Yuppie was a 1980s acronym for 'Young Upwardly Mobile Professional Person'. The word was coined by the advertising industry to capture the essence of a particular type of work hard, play hard, ambitious minded city career person of either sex.
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This Sunday I heard a radio debate between Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin called "Are You a Yippie or a Yuppie?" Rubin said: if the acronym IRA makes you think of the Irish Republican Army, you're a yippie. But if you think that IRA stands for Individual Retirement Account, then you're a yuppie.
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Email me and tell me why you do or do not qualify for being a YUPPIE... Yuppie's Original Homepage is glad to be traceable by serveral search-engines such as GOOGLE, WEBCRAWLER and LYCOS.
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