yuppie

To understand the word yuppie, I believe a mini-geneaology is helpful. Many yuppies, during the 60s were hippies who opposed the Vietnam War with their slogan of peace and love. At the beginning of the 70s, this movement died and most of the hippies sold out. The energy and momentum they had created, they poured into the capitalist market, and rather than make love they started to make money. That´s why I believe the term yuppie has connotations of inauthenticity because many yuppies once had a higher ideal; they were playing a bigger game and they traded it in for consumerism.

Boulder, Colorado was one of the epicenters of hippiedom back in the 60s and now it is super-yuppie. It's now called "the rich, white utopia".

by Huachita May 24, 2007

Yuppie

Privileged white person born into the rich-middle class. You can identify them by their apartments paid by their white parents and their over priced coffee. Not only they are entitled but they they also gentrified every poor income community. Ex: Hoboken, Brooklyn, and other areas near NYC.

Privileged white kids call themselves yuppies.

by Know your history December 07, 2019

yuppie

A Hippie gone bad! A traitor to the 60's generation.

My VW has turned into a VOLVO

by janis February 23, 2005

Yuppie

Rich people who suck

Look at that damn yuppie...they suck!

by Batman March 07, 2005

yuppie

yuppie a city boy or girl moving to country and trying to act country a yuppie

look at the new boy he sure is a yuppie/city people

by _monster_ March 14, 2015

yuppies

Yuppies are typically people who listen to mainstream "music" garbage like Daughtry, Nickleback, or something equally soft, lifeless, and pathetic. Although yuppies are stereotyped as being morally correct, some have quite a bit of a superioty complex.These people usually have happy attitudes and it's really painful to hear them talk with their overly-peppy attitudes sometimes. Yuppies are known for having a cheesy and fake approach to the world around them. It's just sad!

A conversation between a yuppie and non-yuppies at a pep rally:
Yuppie:"All right everyone!!!!!!!!!!!Who wants to be our fuzzy, adoarable school mascot at the pep rally??????!!!!!!!"
Everyone else:"Whatever."

by AsILayDyingHeadBanger December 15, 2007

yuppie

Young "upper class" profesional, profesional what you say? Professional obnoxious moron who knows how to destroy anything that isn't rich, white, and republican.

Some yuppie bitch moved into our nieborhood and now we can't hunt people anymore.

by DonkeyThunder May 01, 2003