Preppy, also spelled, "Preppie," originally just meant someone who went to a prep school and got a good education. Now it is typically used very differently.
Someone labelled as a preppy (or preppie) is usually a youth, most likely middle-class or above, who wears brand-name clothes like Abercrombie & Fitch, listens to the popular music, hangs with the popular people, does reasonably well in school, and fits in well. There are many traits that people would call preppy, such as wearing polo shirts with the collar popped.
The word evolved from the term, "Yuppie," which stood for, "Young Urban Professional." Some Preppies are children of Yuppies.
While this of course can't be said for all people labelled, "Preppy," they are often critized for their excessive consumerism and conformity. While usually not rude to less popular kids, they tend to exclude. Some might thoerize that, from a psychological point of view, they rely on the latest clothes, music, and sometimes cars for self-esteem and that they use these items to define themselves and find meaning in their lives. But despite the time, money, and effort they spend to enhance their personal appearance and stand out among their peers, in the end they often seem indifferent to each other.
Past their clean exteriors, it isn't unknown for them to be heavy users of drugs and alchohol, and to have permiscuous sex; But this doesn't in any way mean that all of them, or even most of them, are like this.
Someone labelled as a preppy (or preppie) is usually a youth, most likely middle-class or above, who wears brand-name clothes like Abercrombie & Fitch, listens to the popular music, hangs with the popular people, does reasonably well in school, and fits in well. There are many traits that people would call preppy, such as wearing polo shirts with the collar popped.
The word evolved from the term, "Yuppie," which stood for, "Young Urban Professional." Some Preppies are children of Yuppies.
While this of course can't be said for all people labelled, "Preppy," they are often critized for their excessive consumerism and conformity. While usually not rude to less popular kids, they tend to exclude. Some might thoerize that, from a psychological point of view, they rely on the latest clothes, music, and sometimes cars for self-esteem and that they use these items to define themselves and find meaning in their lives. But despite the time, money, and effort they spend to enhance their personal appearance and stand out among their peers, in the end they often seem indifferent to each other.
Past their clean exteriors, it isn't unknown for them to be heavy users of drugs and alchohol, and to have permiscuous sex; But this doesn't in any way mean that all of them, or even most of them, are like this.
"There is an idea of a Preppie; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real Preppie: only an entity, something illusory. And though you can shake their hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense your lifestyles are probably comparable... they simply aren't there."
"He's cool, but he's too preppy, always wearing Abercrombie and stuff like that, you know?"
"He's cool, but he's too preppy, always wearing Abercrombie and stuff like that, you know?"
by BlackRainbow April 1, 2007
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by Cgrrrrrl March 18, 2010
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Get the Preppy mug.preppy is not so much a thing as a mindset. i'm in a boarding school, live in fairfield county, and (because of my dress code at school) i have to wear to collared shirts. that does not make me a prep. quite the opposite. when i'm home, i wear baggy pants, baggy shirts, dark makeup...the works. metal, thanks. a prep wears light, fluffy colors. but the main thing is...mindset. a prep is a MORON who despises other people who aren't the same as everybody else. anybody who is differant is immediatly ridiculed and outcasted, i'm speaking from experiance.
by nax February 18, 2005
Get the Preppy mug.A preppy girl (or guy) is a very classy and elegant person who wears expensive clothes and holds their self to a high standard.
by xxsav February 26, 2015
Get the Preppy mug.There are TWO types of preps. First there is the prep who only wears collared shirts, and then there is the other prep who wears Juicy Couture and Abercrombie & Fitch...mostly what celebrities wear. Now, these two preps have one thing in common...they are not sluts. They both do not wear extra-small Abercrombie & Fitch sheer shirts, but they might wear a Medium in not a see-through shirt. Some preps wear shirts that express who they are, for exaple... they might wear a shirt that says, "Almost Always Right" or "Social Studies is my best Subject!" or "I will talk in class". Things like that. They also ALWAYS wear ribbons in their hair as well as ribbon belts. There jeans are from Miss Sixty because Preps wear expensive clothing. They also wear Tiffany & Co. necklaces and bracelets. Mostly silver so they can wear them to school. They have open faces free of oil and dirt and their hair is always clean. They live in the richest towns in the area and have either Victorian or Colonial gorgeous houses. A real prep only lives in a house that costs AT LEAST $1,500,000. Most of them live in $3,700,000 million houses because a real prep's father owns a company or is the CEO of AT LEAST ONE. Anyway, a real prep almost never repeats an outfit and plays golf and tennis with their father and lacross, soccer etc... with their friends. They are envied by everyone because they are beautiful! Also, whenever they wear long pants, they wear pointy shoes and their pants always touch the ground. Anyway....hope it helped!
Those girls are so stylish and they don't look like sluts...they must be preps because they are wearing Miss. Sixty jeans and Juicy Couture shirts!
by Alexandra June 6, 2004
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Also most of them run in packs. Like 2 or 3.
Also most of them run in packs. Like 2 or 3.
Preppy girl#1 OMGZ lets go to the Mall and spend all of our dads money...
Preppy girl#2 Ok let me go and cry in front of my dad so i can get more money... (crys in background)
Daddy ok here is $500 have fun...
Preppy girl#2 Ok come pick me up in your really nice car..
Both Preppy girls (at same time) CYA
Preppy girl#2 Ok let me go and cry in front of my dad so i can get more money... (crys in background)
Daddy ok here is $500 have fun...
Preppy girl#2 Ok come pick me up in your really nice car..
Both Preppy girls (at same time) CYA
by KATTE June 11, 2006
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