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yopper

yopper noun: a person employed under the Youth Opportunities Programme in Britain in the 1980s.

Noun

yopper (plural yoppers)

  1. (informal) A person employed under the Youth Opportunities Programme in Britain in the 1980s.
    • There must be a real drive in the trade union movement and the Labour movement to recruit Yoppers and the unemployed.1981, Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, page 72
    • When we came back to Blackburn I went on the Youth Opportunities Scheme and became a Yopper, which was the worst thing you could call a teenager in those days.2011, Susan Boyle, The Woman I was Born to be, page 120

Forms of yopper

pluralyoppers

Origin of yopper

From YOP + -er.

Questions about yopper

What does yopper mean?
Yopper means a person employed under the Youth Opportunities Programme in Britain in the 1980s.
What part of speech is yopper?
Yopper is a noun.
What is the plural of yopper?
The plural of yopper is yoppers.

Words near yopper in the dictionary

  1. YOPD
  2. yopo
  3. yopon
  4. yopons
  5. Yopp
  6. yopper
  7. yoppers
  8. Yopps
  9. yops
  10. Yopurga
  11. Yopurgha

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