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yuppie

noun as in young upwardly mobile professional

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Dubbing it “the Californian Ideology,” they argued that the “new faith” blended the “freewheeling spirit of the hippies with the entrepreneurial zeal of the yuppies.”

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He said only a yuppie — “you know, those people who work in a bank during the day and only go to concerts at night” — would think he wasn’t.

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“Die yuppie scum” was one of the main slogans of my teen years, so in that context, it was not cool.

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Some doctors dismissed it as psychosomatic and called it “yuppie flu.”

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She leaned into her academic background, fashioning herself as a yuppie villain, wearing power suits and professing her admiration for Hillary Clinton, according to the WWE.

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