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- Dictionaryyuppie/ˈjʌpi/
noun
- 1. a fashionable young middle-class person with a well-paid job: informal, derogatory "stereotypical 1980s yuppies obsessed with material objects and financial success"
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Yuppie, short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional", is a term coined in the early 1980s for a young professional person working in a city. The term is first attested in 1980, when it was used as a fairly neutral demographic label, but by the mid-to-late 1980s, when a "yuppie backlash" developed due to concerns over issues such as gentrification, some writers began... Wikipedia