Define Yuppie Meaning

Yuppie
Informal for (y)oung (U)rban (P)rofessional, or Yup. turned into yuppie in the 1980's. A term used to describe someone who is young, possibly just out of college, and who has a high-paying job and an affluent lifestyle. Can now be used to describe any rich person who is not modest about their financial status. Yuppiedom (yuppie-dum)is a term used to describe an involvement in being a yuppie.

Yuppie-I'm going to go drive my ferrari to the seafood place for a $500 lobster.
Average person-I'm gonna fuck your wife, take your time with the lobster.
By Jeannine
Yuppie
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.
1. 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 $500 fancy shmancy coffee maker at home.

2. 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 can be annoying and arrogant. Few are actual decent and honest human beings.
By Tammara
Yuppie
a very arrogant well put together young urban professional who you more than likely will find wearing gucci and prada with a large bank account which they love to brag about. You can find them drinking Starbucks, living in a one bedroom apartment in a city where they will pay 1000-2000 a month for and spending another 3000 a month on their credit cards. They brag about their designer clothes and love to flaunt them , as well as their wealth. They look down upon anyone who isnt as wealthy or high status as they are. Men are likely to be found wearing designer suits, gucci preferably with slicked back or well cut hair. The women will be wearing prada/gucci and fendi. The most arrogant concieted fucks on the planet.

Look at that yuppie flaunting his wealth.
Most of the characters in American Psycho
By Ollie
Yuppie
Those who flaunt that they have cash, but who might not. Women yuppies are usually seen wearing brands like gucci, prada, drinking Starbucks, and has a coach bag. Also known to drive SUV's. Always arrogant and snot-nosed. Most associated with soccer moms. Rarely associates with those out of the yuppie group.

Soccer moms are yuppies.

I live in a yupped out town.

Rich guys that buy harleys that think they're bikers.
By Eleni
Yuppie
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.

Any of the characters in American Psycho
By Alvinia
Yuppie
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 farmer's markets with expensive (often oversized) strollers, health foods stores, Costco, international upscale grocery stores : Phoenicia Houston,TX, World Harvest Illinois,upscale grocers: Balducci's,Wegmans,Harris Tweeter,Straub's

yuppies are into tennis,wine clubs, risotto,(ladies) wearing heated neck wraps at spas and detox body wraps, Pilates,yoga,Martinis,chai,and go to kinesiologists and patisseries.
By Rosemonde
Yuppie
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.

The yuppie is the scourge of the free-thinking world.
By Felicity
Yuppie
derived from Young Upcoming Professional, or YUP --> "yuppie" became the natural colloquialisation. Derogatory 80s term to describe a 'new breed' of young, wealthy people, typically successful in business and not afraid to flaunt it in a fashion which particularly irritates non-yuppies.

All people with mobile/cell phones used to get tagged with 'yuppie'; the neo-yuppie is one who thinks they are above mobile phones and thus more infuriating in today's social climate than le olde yuppie from the 80s.
By Maureene
Yuppie
These are scared little "professional" brats that hide behind $800,000 homes and their Audi's and Range Rovers. Notice how the home is only $800,000, anyone richer is usually a lot better person. It's the upper middle class ones that act like caramel shitting snobs. They treat restaurant and service people like shit. Eventually someone will kick their ass and they will be humbled.

"I punched that little yuppie in the range rover that pissed on my cornflakes this morning. Then I keyed his car."
By Gilly
Yuppie
yuppie are trendy upper class young people. they go to boutique hotels, Dylan's Candy bar, the cheesecake factory, and they wear Wolford tights, Cosabella (ladies), La Perla (ladies), (the kids of yuppies) have Razor scooters, towels and sheets with high thread per inch,rare flowers, and shop at bergdorf goodman,nordstrom,henri bendel,barneys,they drink luxury vodkas, smoke natural (without additives) cigarettes : Nat Sherman or American Spirit or luxury cigarettes :Dunhills or Gauloises (ladies),they go fox hunting.

yuppies drink coffees at Urth Caffe, Starbucks, Peet's coffee, Coffee Bean and Tea, Jack's Stir Brew Coffee.
By Nicola