| 单词 | yuppie |
| 释义 | yuppie (once / 20809 pages) n If your brother calls you a yuppie, it's not a compliment, but it does mean that he sees you as a well-paid, professional adult. In the mid-1980's, people started using the derogatory term yuppie to talk about a particular group of middle-class, well-educated workers. Yuppies are distinguished by their disposable income and the things on which they choose to spend it, like clothes, food, and cars. Yuppie is a shortened form of "young urban professional," and its popularity won out over other acronyms of the time, "yumpie," for "young upwardly mobile professional, and "yap," for "young aspiring professional." WORD FAMILYyuppie: yuppies USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s Hitler Youth rebranded as Hitler Yuppie — an insidious way to blend in. Washington Post(Nov 30, 2016) This detail immediately establishes them as unnatural childless yuppie scum. Salon(Nov 25, 2016) The party seduced and depended on wealthy suburbanites, and on yuppies streaming back to the inner city. It worked, for a while. Slate(Nov 13, 2016) n a young upwardly mobile professional individual; a well-paid middle-class professional who works in a city and has a luxurious life style Hyper professional, professional person a person engaged in one of the learned professions |
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