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• n  a young upwardly mobile professional individual; a well-paid middle-class professional who works in a city and has a luxurious life style

• Xers witnessed the rise of the yuppie and the burst of the dot-com bubble.
• As a pretentious, self-important yuppie hipster, I thought it was a great idea to pay a baby-name consultant, an occupation created just a year ago.
• Watch how the meaning of yuppie shifts with the zeitgeist.

News & Articles

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• All your heroes eventually die and go to Cobble Hill to become yuppie parents.
  All your heroes eventually die and go to Cobble Hill to become yuppie parents. Even Mike D . Read more...        
  June 13, 2013 - Gawker

Quotes

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• Cheryl Gallant in Toronto Star
  In the Commons, Tory MP Cheryl Gallant said a carbon tax is "nothing more than a yuppie fad" that will punish poor, rural and working class Canadians. "Canadians would be lighting candles, turning on light switches and cursing the Liberals...
• Bob Dylan in BREATHEcast.com
  Dylan replied, "Those are yuppie words, happiness and unhappiness. It's not happiness or unhappiness, it's blessed or unblessed."
• Thurston Moore in Rolling Stone
  Plus, Moore predicts the entire fall of the compact disc, calling it "the 8-tracks of the yuppie generation":