PROFESSIONAL
NOUNS – PERSON
► GUPPIE ► GUPPY an individual who is socially categorized as a Gay Upwardly Mobile Professional → 1984 UK sl.
► LUPPIES Lesbian Urban Professionals, lesbian yuppies → 1990s US homosexual sl.
► WUPPIE a young urban professional who has made money via the Internet (Website and Yuppie) → 1990s sl.
► YAP a young person in one of the learned and well-paid professions (Young American Professional) → 1970s US sl.
► YIPPIES young indictable professional person, a name born of the insider stock-trading scandals → 2006 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► YUMP a member of a socio-economic group comprising young professional people working in cities → 1984 sl., orig. US
► YUMPIE a member of a socio-economic group comprising young professional people working in cities → 1984 sl., orig. US
► YUP a yuppie → 1984 orig. & chiefly US
► YUPPIE ► YUPPY a member of a socio-economic group comprising young professional people working in cities (Young Urban Professional) → 1984 sl, orig. US
► YUPPIE PUPPY a child of a ‘yuppie’, for whom children were seen as something of a fashion accessory in the early 1990s → 2000 sl.
► YUPPIE SCUM 1. an arrogant young professional → 1992 US sl.
2. yuppies → 1997 Harley Davidson motorcyclists’ usage (Bk.)
► YUPPLE co-dependent yuppies → 2006 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► YUPSTER a Young Upwardly mobile Professional → 1986 US sl.
VERBS
► YUPPIFY to make a change in area, building, clothing, etc. so as to be characteristic of or suitable to yuppies → 1984 sl., orig US, often derogatory
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