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▪ I. guppie, n.1 slang.|ˈgʌpɪ|
Also guppy.
[Humorously f. gay a. 2 c + yuppie n.]
A homosexual yuppie.
1984R. Ash et al. Official Brit. Yuppie Handbk. viii. 16/1 There is one group that is totally universal: ‘Guppies’—Gay Urban Professionals (not to be confused with the tropical fish of the same name, which are usually much less exotic). 1986Sunday Times 12 Oct. 48/1 The categorisation was refined to include the guppy (gay urban professional) and the bluppy (black urban professional). 1989N.Y. Newsday 3 Feb. ii. 3/1 On Wednesdays at midnight, Razor Sharp appears with her Go-Go Boys at this upper West Side Guppie hangout.
▪ II. guppie, n.2 slang.|ˈgʌpɪ|
[Humorously f. green a. 11 + yuppie n.]
A yuppie who professes concern about the environment and ecological issues.
1985Guardian 18 May 7/8 Designer Katherine Hamnett..is bringing fashion and politics together in a magazine aimed at Yuppies..and Guppies—the same species, in green, with peace and ecology on its conscience. 1989Daily Tel. 20 Sept. 15/1 The magazine claims that..Hailes and her fellow thinkers, whom it derides as green yuppies or ‘guppies’, have ‘delivered the green movement into the lap of the industrialist’. |