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yuppie
noun as in young upwardly mobile professional
Example Sentences
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.
“Die yuppie scum” was one of the main slogans of my teen years, so in that context, it was not cool.
Some doctors dismissed it as psychosomatic and called it “yuppie flu.”
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.
Mr. Pita, fluent in English and backed by strong support from younger Thais, appears in public as a jovial yuppie brimming with bright ideas, confident that he can overcome the constitutional hurdles in his path.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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