Stands for Young Urban Professional. Yuppies are usually the children of doctors and lawyers, hold Master's degrees from Ivy League universities, and are very concerned with their appearance. Many were in fraternities and many live in expensive houses or apartments.
Yuppies can typically be seen in large metropolitan areas such as Portland or New York. Their wardrobe consists of grey, black or khakhi slacks, usually with grey, striped or pastel colored suit jackets and shirts. Yuppies typically take the idea of competing for social status extremely seriously. Their culture revolves around Starbucks coffee, expensive foreign restaurants and romantic comedies starring Julia Roberts or Tom Hanks. Yuppies generally only hold political views that are considered trendy.
Many yuppies go into fields such as politics, big business, public administration, medicine and law. You may have worked for one.
Yuppies can typically be seen in large metropolitan areas such as Portland or New York. Their wardrobe consists of grey, black or khakhi slacks, usually with grey, striped or pastel colored suit jackets and shirts. Yuppies typically take the idea of competing for social status extremely seriously. Their culture revolves around Starbucks coffee, expensive foreign restaurants and romantic comedies starring Julia Roberts or Tom Hanks. Yuppies generally only hold political views that are considered trendy.
Many yuppies go into fields such as politics, big business, public administration, medicine and law. You may have worked for one.
The most popular movie about yuppie culture is American Psycho.
Yuppies are what happens to hipsters and preps when they grow up.
Yuppies are what happens to hipsters and preps when they grow up.
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Guy A: Man, it's great seeing you guys, been years since college! We should get a hold of Geoff, that dude was the shit!
Guy B: That's not going to work.
Guy C: Yeah, Geoff is elitist yuppie scum now, he won't associate with us "poor folk."
Guy A: Poor? I make like $75,000 a year.
Guy B: Exactly.
Guy B: That's not going to work.
Guy C: Yeah, Geoff is elitist yuppie scum now, he won't associate with us "poor folk."
Guy A: Poor? I make like $75,000 a year.
Guy B: Exactly.
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If this hot yippie’s kid wasn’t so damn cute I’d slap him right off his yippie bike and give him a dirty sanchez.
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Get the yuppie crack mug.the "yuppie nuremberg" defense is when someone does something they know is wrong but tries justify it by simply saying they're doing it for the money. typically a lame excuse. . from the film, "thank you for smoking."
1; You know what your doing is wrong.
2; Everybody has a mortgage to pay.
1; Ah, the yuppie-nuremberg defense.
2; Everybody has a mortgage to pay.
1; Ah, the yuppie-nuremberg defense.
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Look at this, again with this yappity yap, can this teacher teach and not yap for the majority of the class?
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I am slowly but surely getting some distance from this Posttraumatic Yapping Disorder; I’ve noticed a decrease in my hypervigilance to sound since I removed myself from the noisy old neighborhood that was heavily populated by an army of tiny yappers who reacted to every single sound throughout those days and nights.
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