Whats a yuppie?!
Question: heard it on only fools and horses wondered what it meant. i thought it meant posh people
Answers: heard it on only fools and horses wondered what it meant. i thought it meant posh people
young urban proffesional its an 80's term for people with filo faxes ;-)
edit - and min77ion is actually right too ;-)
it's a person that is spoiled as a child and into their teenage years,,and even into the adults stage aswell...
They have everything bought 4 them,,and get their way everytime...Usually rely on Mom and Dad for everything
I think they are former Hippies that sold out to material things like BMWs and designer jeans
Young Urban Professional
A Young Urban Professional.
Short for young, urban professional...term from the 80s.
Yuppies (young urban professionals, or less commonly young upwardly-mobile professionals
posh snooty people, with daft accents and stupid clothes.
Young upward professional...
Forgte what it stands for, buts it about being upwardly mobile...
From the 80s it was young city boys who had lots of cash, flash car, latest gadgets etc.
Not about being posh, abuot being cash rich
i think its a fish
Young Urban Professionals.
Young urban professional
You could have googled it ya' know..
1. yuppie - Informal for (y)oung (U)rban (P)rofessional, or Yup. turned into yuppie in the 1980's. A term used to describe someone who is young, possibly just out of college, and who has a high-paying job and an affluent lifestyle. Can now be used to describe any rich person who is not modest about their financial status. Yuppiedom (yuppie-dum)is a term used to describe an involvement in being a yuppie. a very arrogant well put together young urban professional who you more than likely will find wearing gucci and prada with a large bank account which they love to brag about. You can find them drinking Starbucks, living in a one bedroom apartment in a city where they will pay 1000-2000 a month for and spending another 3000 a month on their credit cards. They brag about their designer clothes and love to flaunt them , as well as their wealth. They look down upon anyone who isnt as wealthy or high status as they are. Men are likely to be found wearing designer suits, gucci preferably with slicked back or well cut hair & arrogant. The women will be wearing prada/gucci and fendi & arrogant.
YUPpie was coined from the initials YUP, for Young Urban Professional.
That gave way to many more acronyms based on a persons lifestyle, like DINKs (Double Income, No Kids)
Y YOUNG
U UPCOMING
P PROFESSIONAL
P PEOPLE
hence the term yuppie
It means a young upwardly mobile person, in normal talk a career person with prospects.
Lol
oh i love that one
and a yuppie .....
"Young Urban Proffesional"> YUP> Yuppie. Basically, young rich idiots with two much money who drive SUVs and have an inflated sense of self importance.
Besides, the terms has been around for like twenty years... Not exactly cutting-edge American slang. :)
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Young Urban Professional - An 80's term for those filofax yielding , up their own a ** youngsters! Probably all bankrupt now!
Young Urban Professional -- Y -U -P
aka yuppie
It was a saying that appeared in the 1980's it basically ment young upwardly-mobile professionals. for self-reliant, financially secure individualists... the saying had been around for years young upwardly-mobile professionals which got shortened to yuppie
Young Urban Proffessionals
Young Urban Professional.
Stands for Yound Upwardly mobile People something or other.
Generally it's a term for a group of people who are (or like to think they are) posh. Started in the 80s with people getting money quickly, driving fast cars, moving in the right circles.
Can be a form of abuse ie "what are you a bloody Yuppie or something?" If someone's acting with airs and graces.
A young, ambitious, professional person who earns a lot of money and spends it on fashionable things