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yuppies

yuppies is the plural of yuppie.

yuppies is the plural of yuppy.

Meaning of yuppie

Noun

yuppie (plural yuppies)

  1. (dated, derogatory, informal, sometimes) A young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle.
    • [David] Wain packs They Came Together with supporting characters, most of them variations on stock rom-com archetypes—the exes, the siblings, the co-workers, the yuppie parents, and so forth.2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2017
    Synonyms:
    bobo, yumpie, yup

Questions about yuppies

What is yuppies the plural of?
Yuppies is the plural of yuppie.

Words near yuppies in the dictionary

  1. yuppiedom
  2. yuppiehood
  3. yuppieish
  4. yuppieism
  5. yuppieness
  6. yuppies
  7. yuppification
  8. yuppified
  9. yuppifies
  10. yuppify
  11. yuppifying

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