preppy girl

A girl who is usually characterized by wearing specific brands such as J.Crew, Vinyard Vines, Lilly Pulitzer, Lacoste, Jack Wills, Jack Rogers, and Ralph Lauren. Her clothes are never too tight, or too loose. She has good skin, and is clean and polished. While a preppy girl looks the part, she must act the part aswell. She girl must be classy, respectful of others, and also a good student. The girls that act otherwise, are not a true prep, because they are obviously not classy.

Samantha is a preppy girl because she is classy and respectful, and she wears a pink vineyard vines polo paired with a cute lilly skirt.

by Audrey0 February 6, 2013

prepup

Formal agreement between partners before they add a dog to the family.

Man: Well, if we ever decide to get a dog, we're going to have to sign a prepup first.

Woman: Yeah: Cuz if you ever break up with me, I'm keeping the dog.

Man: Fine! But if he swallows some magnets and needs $1,500 in x-rays and surgery, he's getting the needle. That's the Darwin Award clause.

by flatrockdam October 4, 2009

preps

Preps are offspring of the old Anglo-American ruling class, whether or not they rule today. Preps once ruled North and South. Their offspring can be be found in select enclaves in Texas and California, but will always be aware of their roots in the British colonies where their ancestors were Royal Governors, Judges, Presidents of Harvard or Yale, Declaration of Independence signatories or other useful things such as merely rich. Preps have long driveways. Public display of wealth is not prep. Preps do not drive ferrarris. Prep men do not wear Italian clothes. Ever (except Gucci loafers).
Preps have always been preps. As far as clothes its a manner of dressing that you are born into. Siblings raid each other's or their parents closets for prep clothes. All generations dress the same with minor variations. Old prep clothes are better than new. Preps are not nouveau. Your dad bought his suits at Brooks brothers or had them made bespoke by his tailor. If you are lucky he may have some nice English tweeds you may come into and shirts with double cuffs from somewhere around St. James's in London, but American preps are generally much more casual than their counterparts in the UK or on the continent. Your prep dad taught you how to shoot (guns are prep). You learnt how to swim, ride, and sail (water and horses are prep). Someday you will get dad's very thin gold watch and you will wear it on a striped grosgrain band just like he did. You inherit your grandfather's thin gold cuff-links and thick ivory-handled coat brush engraved with his monogram or coat of arms. You have and often wear a dinner jacket, and possibly a white tie for full dress with gewgaws.
Preps are the gentry. The real ones have pedigrees that tie them to the English gentry and nobility. You may be a 9th cousin once removed of Prince William. Preps came to America in the 17th c. on boats like the Lady Arabella (better than the Mayflower) named in honor of the Earl of Lincoln's daughter.
Preps did not come through Ellis Island. Some of your friends and someone in your family is in the Social Register. You do not belong to the very expensive clubs and socialize with new minted high tech billionaires. You belong to the older clubs that preps have always inhabited. You may go to a public school but only if you live in the right prep neighborhood so that you will find other WASP preps there including . Super preps will have recognizable "social" names that are like a code only preps know and by which they can identity each other. Preps are often the nicest people on the planet because they have no need to be otherwise. Since they are born with top inherited social status, they have no need to step on others to get ahead unlike the aggressive middle class strivers and class climbers you will find taking over places like Harvard.
Preps may be city slickers for a while, but they are country people at heart. Preps love the land, country houses, and country pursuits like steeple chases, point-to-pointing and gentleman farming.
Preps love the past. Preps have oil paintings of their prep ancestors, often by famous artists of the 18th c. The future belongs to everyone else. Preps know the best stuff (beautiful women, good drink, fine houses, the countryside, hunting, oxford, cambridge, and harvard) has always been around. Preps are not trendy, although the women may be stylilsh and fashionable. Men can be dashing and southern preps tend to have retained a more aristocratic dash from their royalist ancestors than their buttoned- down puritan cousins.
Preps are not "intellectuals" and find the term somewhat alien and amusing in its pretentions. They may be very smart, even scholarly, highly accomplished and full prefessors in which case they are men of letters. Preps like alcohol and good conversation. Hip flasks and good jokes are prep. Preps have beautiful antique furniture (some inherited, some bought at auction or scrounged from estate sales in the country). Preps are rarely found running large American corporations anymore, and except for lucky preps, the old
fortune is not what it once was although you probably still have your trust fund to take some of the hard edges off of life. Some preps are born into branches of the family without the money but will live essentially the same way as their more fortunate cousins, just on a smaller scale. Preps won't change for anybody, or anything. Even poor preps, They have one of the few authentic, distinct and enduring cultures in America reaching back nearly 400 years. Preps like Washington and Jefferson invented America. Preps are usually socially tolerant Republicans, although some may be conservative Democrats.

Happy preps spot a noovo over Bloody Mary's at the Yacht Club on Sunday: one prep says "What's the difference between a porcupine and a range rover?" the other prep answers "With a range rover, the pricks are on the inside!"

by William Byrd October 5, 2005

prepneck

Usually in the Charlotte NC area. Someone who acts like a redneck but trys to dress preppy. Not hitting that nail on the head either. Still wears gold chains the redneck in them...yells profanitys while drinking at the Graduate Independence...(circa 1992-2002). Likes to get in fights.

Prepnecks are anyone from Mint Hill NC. Comes from any outlying rural Charlotte NC area. Usually male. Females wear Keds and have bad boob jobs. Females normally throw drinks to get attention from aforementioned male prepnecks.

by roger polk August 7, 2006

preppish

A language that preps speak. It is spoken faster than spanish. We have no idea when it was invented or why it is used, but try asking a prep. Example below & translation:

omigodlastnightiwenttothishellacoolparty andgothellahellahelladrunk andthenchriscameoverandlike totally kissedmeonthelips sothenwewentupinthebedroomandmadeoutandthenhestartedlikesayinghewantedtofuckmesoidid andigot SO HORNY.....

Translation: I'm a drunk bitch

by bojzzle September 1, 2004

preppy blacks

Well, where to begin. First W.A.S.P. are not the only preps in the world,there are also B.A.C.P.(black american christian preps)<-- I proclaimed us that myself. Second being preppy is NOT A TREND!! It is lifestyle. Im black, a prep, and no im not one of those ghetto acting black people either. I am just as prep as the next preppy person, but only darker. And no true preppy black person wears aeropostale, hollister, or even abercrombie and "Fitch". The guys where vineyard vines, Lacoste, L.L. Bean, Brooks Brothers, Topsiders, Cole Haans, Polos always popped, Ralph Lauren, and especially Patagonia(for when there filling sporty). And trust me the more monograms the better. For the Girls Lacoste, Polos always popped, Lilly,Topsiders, L.L. Bean, Vineyard vines,Nantucket red, Eliza B, J.Crew, C.K. Bradley is a MUST, and basicly any other preppy clothing you can think of,and less make-up the better. We are well educated meaning top of the line schools usually private and our families usually belong to the Jack and Jill of America Foundation. And we normally summer in nantucket or the cape. Being preppy gets me many stares but i love my lifestyle and will always be preppy! So when you see a true black prep tip your collar by letting them know being preppy is the ultimate way of life.

Our sports include: Soccer, Tennis, Golf, Crew, and basketball, and Football.

average look:
guys
hair cut low to head
polo pref. doubled and popped
madras shorts
moccassins

girls
hair laying down w/ ribbon
pearls: earrings and necklace
pink lacoste popped
white vineyard vines skirt
white cashmere sweater tied
over shoulders
j.crew flops
vineyard vines tote

kate: HEY look at those black preppy girls!
ashley:where i dont see them?!...
kate: over there in the pink polos, they look so classy
ashley: yes they do, gurl

preppy blacks are the best!

by Black.Preppy.Princess January 31, 2008

preppy

Most of the best definitions of preppy have emphasized Northern or New England birthrite preppies, but let's not forget about Southern preppies, as in folks living in Mountain Brook, Alabama, or the West End, Virginia, or the Garden District in Louisiana, or Buckhead, Georgia, or Belle Meade, Tennessee (if you've never heard of these Old Guard, old-money, preppy southern suburbs, than you're not a birthrite prep). Southern preppies wear most of the same classic clothes and styles as their northern cousins, including Lacoste, Lilly, L.L. Bean, Vineyard vines, Topsiders, Brooks Brothers, tevas, Polo, and especially Patagonia (shorts and fleece are key for guys). And the more monograms, the better. Girls love grosgrain and totes from Vineyard Vines and Bean. They also like outerwear by Barbour, Cole-Haan bit loafers, and wallobies by Clark. Southern preppy girls have straight, shoulder length hair. Their preppy mothers and grandmothers may have stiff, helmut hairstyles that haven't changed in decades. Preppy guys have longish, shaggy, wind blown hair. So do their daddies. They look so much alike. Preppy Southerners would attend day schools such as Altamont or Westminster or Harpeth Hall or boarding schools such as Woodberry Forest or Baylor or Foxcroft or Madiera, rather than a New England prep school. For college, they may attend state schools such as Bama or UVA or UNC or private colleges such as Vanderbilt or W&L or Hamden-Sydney (the preppiest school in the country according to Lisa Birnbach). And they will almost always join a fraternity or sorority. Preppy families live in historic or historic looking houses in nice, woodsy neighborhoods, that are comfortable in size but never ostentatious (no electronic gates!) Inside, family antiques, silver, china and portraits are found and all rooms are always used. It is an elegant yet comfortable environment. Southern preppies and their families belong to private town clubs and country clubs such as the Piedmont Driving Club of Atlanta, the Commonwealth Club of Richmond, and the Mountain Brook Club of Birmingham. Southern preppy families don't emphasize cars as status, but typically drive volvo wagons, mercedes sedans, Jeep Cherokees, Hondas, and sometimes SUVs (although they feel guilty about them!). It is more important to have money in the bank than in the driveway! Southern preppies enjoy sports such as tennis, sailing, soccer, lacrosse, and golf, but also quail hunting (in season) and attend Steeplechases in Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia. And they love to watch and attend college football games in fall. Tailgate parties! While some southern preppies journey northwards to summer on Martha's Vineyard or in Maine, most old southern families summer on Sea Island or St. Simmons's Island in Georgia, the mountain towns of Linville and Highlands in North Carolina, or the north Georgia lakes of Lake Rabun and Lake Burton. Southern preppies believe strongly in giving back to the community and are active members of their church, sit on symphony and museum boards, volunteer at children's hospitals, and run historic preservation societies. In fact, most old-family southern debutantes are required to participate in volunteer work during their debut season. Old-family, southern debutante balls are still important and traditional rites of passage for southern preppy girls as debs and preppy boys as escorts or marshalls. All southern preppies seem to know one another and have a large group of friends and acquaintances. Southern preppies have large, extended families and lots of cousins. They always go to the family country place for Thanksgiving and play football and ride horses. Preppy as a fashion trend may come and go, by preppy as a lifestyle will always continue and exist, and probably more so in the South than elsewhere. Remember: the Virginia colonies were settled by England before Massachusetts and the rest of New England. And Virginia is very prep.

Kappa Sigma at Hampden-Sydney is full of blond, shaggy hair guys who play lacrosse and are from Buckhead.

by Alex September 22, 2004