Yuppie

Not to be confused with Yippie or Hippie.
"Yuppies" redirects here. For the 1986 Italian comedy film, see Yuppies (film).

Anti-yuppie graffiti criticizing the gentrification of Austin, Texas

Yuppie, short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional",[1][2] is a term coined in the early 1980s for a young professional person working in a city.[3] The term is first attested in 1980, when it was used as a fairly neutral demographic label, but by the mid-to-late 1980s, when a "yuppie backlash" developed due to concerns over issues such as gentrification, some writers began using the term pejoratively.

  1. ^ Algeo, John (1991). Fifty Years Among the New Words: A Dictionary of Neologisms. Cambridge University Press. p. 220. ISBN 0-521-41377-X.
  2. ^ Childs, Peter; Storry, Mike, eds. (2002). "Acronym Groups". Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture. London: Routledge. pp. 2–3.
  3. ^ "yuppie, n.". Oxford English Dictionary. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved May 20, 2016.