yuppie food stamp

noun

A $20 bill, as dispensed from an ATM.

“We need change, but all I have is a yuppie food stamp.”

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Meanings

nounyuppie food stamp (plural yuppie food stamps)

plural yuppie food stamps

  1. slangA $20 bill, as dispensed from an ATM.

    We need change, but all I have is a yuppie food stamp.

Origin

Like yuppie flu, the term originally connoted (and may still connote) contempt by working-class people for others who are perceived as rich, undeserving, and soft. The stereotype-laden imagery is that a yuppie throws twenties around like a poor person might throw food stamps around, neither one wholly deserving the resource that they are profligately consuming. Class antagonism is implicit in both directions, upward and downward.

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yuppie food stamp. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yuppie%20food%20stamp

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“yuppie food stamp.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yuppie%20food%20stamp. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “yuppie food stamp,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yuppie%20food%20stamp.

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