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yuppy

yuppy is the alternative spelling of yuppie.

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

Forms of yuppy

pluralyuppies

Words formed from yuppy

Words that rhyme with yuppy

Questions about yuppy

What is yuppy the alternative spelling of?
Yuppy is the alternative spelling of yuppie.

Words near yuppy in the dictionary

  1. yuppifying
  2. yuppiness
  3. yuppism
  4. yuppity
  5. yuppo
  6. yuppy
  7. yuppydom
  8. yuppyish
  9. yuppyism
  10. yups
  11. yupster

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yuppy (page history and authors); yuppie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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