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YUPPIE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does yuppie mean?
• YUPPIE (noun)
The noun YUPPIE has 1 sense:
1. a young upwardly mobile professional individual; a well-paid middle-class professional who works in a city and has a luxurious life style
Familiarity information: YUPPIE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A young upwardly mobile professional individual; a well-paid middle-class professional who works in a city and has a luxurious life style
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("yuppie" is a kind of...):
professional; professional person (a person engaged in one of the learned professions)
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