Yuppie
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Noun: A person who believes that they deserve their high pay much more than anyone else who works just as hard as they do. They have a lot of shiny objects and generally look down upon those who do not have shiny objects, or those with less shiny objects.
Yuppies will move into an area that was once affordable in the city, but they got wind that it was “hip” to live in Wicker Park, or SoHo, or the Teapot District, so they gentrify it.
Gentrify means to make unaffordable for anyone but yuppies. -
Term coined in the 80s, describing a certain demographic of Young Updwardly-mobile Professional as found in cities and fast-paced business environments.
Yuppies differ from your bog-standard business man due to their relatively young age, their blatant arrogance, bloody-minded ambition and the fact that they care more about their work and making money, than the fact that everyone thinks they are a complete [twat]. -
Usually a metrosexual- one who shops at stores named after people ie: Calvin Klein, Kenneth Cole, Ralph Lauren, Or Tommy Hilfiger. In addition, this person drives a nice car, most likely a BMW, and drinks large amounts of starbucks.
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A yuppie is an acronym for a Young Urban Prossesional. These people are, plainly, cunts. To go more in depth, these people are commonly white, but there is a large black and asian group as well. They commonly shop at brand name stores, or stores made/named after white people: Prada, Gucci, Calvin Klein. They drive luxury vehicles like BMWs and Jaguars. Yuppies usually have extremely gay names like Spencer, Hunter, Chad, Link, Randolph, Tucker, etc. They thoroughly enjoy money and flaunting just how much many they have. Like the Nazis were responsible for the Holocaust, yuppies are responsible for gentrification. They usually move into ethnic, working-class neighborhoods, purchase these low cost houses, knock them down and build luxury condos. They move here for a taste of culture and urbanity, but then they wonder where all the culture has gone when the blue collar natives were forced to move away due to rising property taxes and no where to live. Places faced by this plag include: SoHo, Hells Kitchen, Charlestown (MA).
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young, well to do (mostly white) people in urban areas who are trendy, talk on their cell phones, use their PDAs or laptops, drink coffee in Starbucks and drive a nice car.
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Stands for Young Urban Professional. [Yuppies] are usually the children of doctors and lawyers, hold Masters degrees from Ivy League universities, and are very concerned with their appearance. Many were in fraternities and many live in expensive houses or apartments.
Yuppies can typically be seen in large metropolitan areas such as Portland or New York. Their wardrobe consists of grey, black or khakhi slacks, usually with grey, striped or pastel colored suit jackets and shirts. Yuppies typically take the idea of competing for social status extremely seriously. Their culture revolves around Starbucks coffee, expensive foreign restaurants and romantic comedies starring [Julia Roberts] or Tom Hanks. Yuppies generally only hold political views that are considered trendy.
Many [yuppies] go into fields such as politics, big business, [public administration], medicine and law. You may have worked for one. -
Members of an [overpriced] [household] in an overpriced area with overpriced posessions, none of which are prepared to clean their own toilet, or put out [the trash].
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Self absorbed pompous, selfish, spoiled and morally corrupt individuals between the ages of 25 and 40. Usually have a master’s degree and a [hot wife] or girlfriend. They love .00 cups of coffee, European cars, designer clothing, outrageously expensive homes and watching the stock market 24/7.
They’ll have one or two kids that tend to be little versions of their parents – spoiled, loud and demand attention. Their wives never work and spend most of their time at the mall, at [the spa], at Starbucks with other [yuppie] wives or banging the pool boy because they’re husbands are too busy making more money.
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A word derived from the root YUP standing for Young urban professional. A wealthy person who makes sure that every other person is informed of that fact.
A person who is a Yuppie might live in an expensive apartment in a major city and works an important desk job at a large corporation. Probably wears expensive brandnames. Shops at [hoity toity] stores us commonfolk probably never heard of. Buys coffee at Starbucks even though they own a [fancy shmancy] coffee maker at home.
In a family setting:
-Lives in a development neighborhood in a suburban area with few trees or foliage. All houses look very similar.
-Has a family dog(Golden Retriever, Labrador Retriever, [Saint Bernard], ect.)
-Drives a Minivan (I.E. [Honda Odyssey])
-Mother of family does not work.
-Father of family holds prominent position at corporation in the city.
-2-4 children with a number of supposed allergies and health problems.
-Has a number of Yuppie friends who come to visit with their Yuppie children.
-Still buys coffee at Starbucks. -
yuppies are trendy young upper class college educated people. yuppies have jogging strollers or baby Bjorn baby carriers (ladies), greenhouses,trek with trek poles (yuppie poles),college sweat suits,plasma TVs,kindle,chi irons,[Keurig] coffee machines,go to movie screenings and cupcake bakeries, shop at upscale stationary stores, wineries, rare bookstores, upscale stores Williams Sonoma,upscale museum shops Metroploitan Museum of Art moma.org, trendy bookstore Kramerbooks,Apple stores, tea shops,go to farmers markets with expensive (often oversized) strollers, health foods stores, Costco, international upscale grocery stores : [Phoenicia] Houston,TX, World Harvest Illinois,upscale grocers: [Balduccis],Wegmans,Harris Tweeter,[Straubs]
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Pronunciation (YUH-pee)
[Synonyms: asshole], Bobo (burgeois bohemian), metrosexual, suburbanite,
Acronym for Young Urban Professional - typically a person who wants you to believe that they are superior to you due to their high-paying corporate job and social status. Activities include frequent purchases of expensive fuel-INefficient vehicles, extravagant clothing and jewelry, and anything that elevates them to a higher social standing.
Behavioral traits include intense arrogance, unhealthy preoccupation/obsession with the safety of their spawn, meeting with personal trainers, immeasurable selfishness, and constant [obliviousness] to anyone who does not have the same or greater social status. Free thought is not allowed as it disrupts the balance of their world.
Habitat is restricted to excessively large, poorly-built houses (McMansions) which are frequently gated in to form a [yuppie compound], typically called a subdivision or gated community. [The compound] is governed by a small group of fascists operating under the moniker of a neighborhood association. The compound is erected to provide the ILLUSION of a safe and secure environment for the yuppies to raise their spawn.
Yuppie religion is restricted to the Cult of the Dollar. -
A young person with a well-paid job and a fashionable lifestyle.
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