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To understand the word yuppie, I believe a mini-geneaology is helpful. Many yuppies, during the 60s were hippies who opposed the Vietnam War with their slogan of peace and love. At the beginning of the 70s, this movement died and most of the hippies sold out. The energy and momentum they had created, they poured into the capitalist market, and rather than make love they started to make money. That´s why I believe the term yuppie has connotations of inauthenticity because many yuppies once had a higher ideal; they were playing a bigger game and they traded it in for consumerism.
Boulder, Colorado was one of the epicenters of hippiedom back in the 60s and now it is super-yuppie. It's now called "the rich, white utopia".
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1) An out dated acronymn used in the 80's and early 90's that meant: Yes Under Peer Pressure I Eat Shit. It indicated that there were brown nosers on the way up the chain of seniority in a corporation career
Yuppies brown nose their way up the corporate ladder.
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The opposite of hippie, if you will. Used to mean "young urban proffessional" but now it is used as an insult towards young people who happen to wear suits.
It is also used as an insult to mean shallow, but conservative people.
Usually, yuppies are racist and xenophobic, and against abortions. They will exhibit a limited amount of intelligence and regurgitate news heard from such crappy channels as "FOX" or "NBC" or even "ABC" . Sometimes they are extremist Christian, but not often. Usually scientifically atheistic. It doesn't matter what colour their skin is, they can still be racist against their own.
They don't wear too much jewelry or makeup, and their music of choice is the horrific genre of "soft rock" or "easy listening". Their style of dress is conservative, but not bad considering the alternatives. They wear leather briefcases or nylon laptop bags, and have a sense of self-importance with their blackberry cellphones and their IPods.
They wear brand names like Eddie Bauer, Tommy Hilfiger, sometimes Armani and, if they feel funky, D&G. Coco Chanel is seen as an idol, but usually, the females will wear Coach bags, because these are more in fashion.
Yuppies like to pretend they're not following trends, but they follow trends just like townies and trendies do.
A yuppie is a corporate lawyer.
A business person is a yuppie.
Damn yuppies are at it again!
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Privileged white person born into the rich-middle class. You can identify them by their apartments paid by their white parents and their over priced coffee. Not only they are entitled but they they also gentrified every poor income community. Ex: Hoboken, Brooklyn, and other areas near NYC.
Privileged white kids call themselves yuppies.
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yuppie a city boy or girl moving to country and trying to act country a yuppie
look at the new boy he sure is a yuppie/city people
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