Yuppie

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  • noun. A young city or suburban resident with a well-paid professional job and an affluent lifestyle.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. an ambitious young adult, usually college-educated, living in or near a large city, with a professional career and an affluent lifestyle. The "u" in the word is sometimes interpreted as meaning “upwardly mobile”.
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  • noun. a young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a young upwardly mobile professional individual; a well-paid middle-class professional who works in a city and has a luxurious life style
    • Word Usage
    "It was 1971, well before the word yuppie had been coined, or wide acceptance of the principle that monetary success and value were synonyms."
    Equivalent
    yuppy  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    professional  professional person  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    cuppy  guppy  puppy  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    artists'  hair-bobbing  jboss  late-evening  ninety-minute  
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