A fork of Rural Dictionary
Young Upcoming Professional Person with "ie" added on the end. Used in the 80's to describe the new breed of professionals who were young, wealthy and generally successful in business.
Anyone with decent clothes, mobile phones, and blackberries are considered to be yuppies. The Rodney Trotter from Only Fools and Horses was a yuppie
someone who is a big buisness man and stays in the big city
hey man, look at that yuppie over there
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!!
One word used to define and accurately describe younger to middle-aged adults, who are self-absorbed.
Those who ignorantly confuse life's natural wonders for monetary security and popularity. People who place price tags on love and family( ie; I want a big home/ Porsche before I have children.)
a moderately or extremely sucessful business person, usually in thier late 20s or 30s (from young urban professional)
Stop bothering me you stupid yuppie.
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.
Boulder, Colorado was one of the epicenters of hippiedom back in the 60s and now it is super-yuppie. It's now called "the rich, white utopia".