huppie

plural huppies

1. slangA Hispanic yuppie; an affluent professional of Latin American descent.

   The vato is a Huppie. HErbErt: What's a Huppie? ric: You know, a Hispanic Yuppie.

   1997, Culture Clash, Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy, →ISBN, page 52

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   Among the work he has been doing have been films such as “D.C. Cab” and this year’s “Quicksilver”, a Kevin Bacon Wall-Street-on-wheels vehicle, in which he played an aspiring huppie (Hispanic Urban Professional).

   1986 August 20, Michael Spies, “Bilingual comic uses the language of laughter”, in Houston Chronicle

   Wiscovitch calls himself a “huppie”. Which, he translates, is a Hispanic Yuppie.

   1989 March 3, Maurice Carroll, “Pols and Politics; Political Writers Ready for Show”, in Newsday (New Your)

   Mr. Munoz stresses that the crime rate has been dropping in Little Village and that he backs a tax-increment financing district in his ward — a controversial stance in other Hispanic areas. Because the neighborhood is improving, “folks like me — yuppies, luppies, huppies, whatever you want to call them — will be able to find homes here,” he says, referring to the Latino and Hispanic variations of young urban professionals.

   1999 February 15, Greg Hinz, “Vying for Hot Hispanic Votes”, in Crain’s Chicago Business

plural huppies

1. slangAn affluent professional with stereotypical left-wing social and political views or lifestyle.

   "Look who's talking." "Hippie, huppie, baldy," screamed a voice. "Oh my gosh, it's Annabel again."

   1993, Delia Ephron, The Girl who Changed the World, page 92

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   He accused the well-intentioned folks who sell Fair Trade coffee of "cultural imperialism," blasting those who blend "suffering, pain, and humiliation" into the beans they sell to "the affluent but guilt-ridden, Birkenstock-shod, politically correct, myopically naive creature known as the huppie”—whom he defined as a combination hippie-yuppie.

   2010, Mark Pendergrast, Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World, →ISBN, page 347

   To be a huppie, you have to know how to make a little money. You want to live well, but keep in touch with the real world.

   2010 June 8, Jason Sheftell, “East Side story: Off Avenue D, The Flowerbox is the best building you've never seen”, in New York Daily News