a moderately or extremely sucessful business person, usually in thier late 20s or 30s (from young urban professional)

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.

someone who is two in to them selves and the nature, who drives there hybrids around every where and drink 8 dollar coffees and are to cool for non environmental people also known as a city boy. A yuppie is also afraid to get there hands dirty (have a actual job) or go to the woods and camp or hunt!!

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

(Y)oung (U)rban) (P)rofessional. Someone who's in their 20s or 30s and makes a good salary. Often times hated by people with nothing else better to do than to complain, yet most yuppies just do their job and mind their own business. They're usually in the larger metropolitan areas such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, etc.

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

Rich people who suck