Meanings
plural yuppies · alternative yuppy
- datedderogatoryinformalsometimesA young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle.
[David] Wain packs They Came Together with supporting characters, most of them variations on stock rom-com archetypes—the exes, the siblings, the co-workers, the yuppie parents, and so forth.
2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2017
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle.
Origin
Originally an acronym for young upwardly mobile professional or young urban professional, + -ie (suffix forming noun signifying person associated with suffixed noun).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 雅皮士, 雅痞
- 雅皮士 (yǎpíshì)young upwardly mobile urban professional person
- 雅痞 (yǎpǐ)young upwardly mobile urban professional person
Dutch yuppie, yup
- yuppieyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
- yupyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
Estonian pintsaklipslane, yuppie
- pintsaklipslaneyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
- yuppieyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
Finnish juppi
- juppiyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
French yuppie, bobo
- yuppieyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
- boboyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
German Yuppie
- Yuppieyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
Greek γιάπης
- γιάπης (giápis)young upwardly mobile urban professional person
Hebrew יָאפִּי
- יָאפִּי (yápi)young upwardly mobile urban professional person
Hungarian fiatal értelmiségi
- fiatal értelmiségiyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
Icelandic uppi
- uppiyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
Italian yuppie
- yuppieyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
Japanese ヤッピー
- ヤッピー (yappī)young upwardly mobile urban professional person
Korean 여피
- 여피 (yeopi)young upwardly mobile urban professional person
Latvian japijs, jampijs
- japijsyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
- jampijsyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
Norwegian japp, yuppie
- jappyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
- yuppieyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
Polish yuppie, yuppi
- yuppieyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
- yuppiyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
- japiszonyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
Portuguese yuppie
- yuppieyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
Russian я́ппи
- я́ппи (jáppi)young upwardly mobile urban professional person
Spanish yuppy, yuppie
- yuppyyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
- yuppieyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
- yupiyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
Swedish yuppie
- yuppieyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
Turkish yupi
- yupiyoung upwardly mobile urban professional person
Ukrainian я́ппі
- я́ппі (jáppi)young upwardly mobile urban professional person
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with yuppie
All rhymes →Cite this entry
yuppie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yuppie
“yuppie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yuppie. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “yuppie,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yuppie.
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