Definition of "yuppie" []

• Informal A young city or suburban resident with a well-paid professional job and an affluent lifestyle. (noun)

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• "It was 1971, well before the word yuppie had been coined, or wide acceptance of the principle that monetary success and value were synonyms."
• "The term yuppie (short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional") refers to an 1980s and early 1990s term for financially secure, upper-middle class young people in their 20s and early 30s."
• "It saw rapid expansion as the niche became - in yuppie fashion - mainstream."