Really? It actually has a proper meaning as apposed to a word used to sterotype somebody without any real connections to the orgins of the word...wow....
Right, I saw one of them yesterday. At the petrol station..... a young business man. In 20years he'll be one of them scary ones.
from Wikipedia - go and give them money at once Related terms A yumpie is a "young upwardly-mobile person". While this term is far less common, many confuse the derivation for Yuppie with that of Yumpie, and the two express broadly the same connotations anyway. Some sources (textbooks, even) state that yuppie actually stands for "young upwardly-mobile person". A buppie is sometimes used to refer to a black (African-American) yuppie. A guppie is a gay yuppie. Yuppify and yuppification are a slang terms used in place of the words gentrify and gentrification but with an even more negative connotation. A yuppie slum refers to any neighborhood that is largely populated by a young well-off crowd, but often has other connotations of gentrification and rising rental and dining costs in a previously low-rent neighborhood. A yuppie food stamp is a crisp US$20 note issued by an ATM machine. "Dinks" are well-off couples who often have much in common with "yuppies". The label is an acronym--Dual Income, No Kids. "Sitcoms" are former yuppies or DINKs. The label is an acronym for Single Income Two Children Oppressive Mortgage. "Yuppicide" is the killing of Yuppies. (Vehicular Yuppicide is when you slam into a BMW.) A New York-based hardcore/punk band in the 1990s called themselves Yuppicide. Compare Hippie, Yippie, and Hipster
Ah yes i know the perfect example! His name is bart and he drives around in a red toyota celica with the number plate "orgie", and he is continually saying how he is a battleing entraprenur (spelling) and all this stuff, thinking that he is sounding really inpressive but to me it just seems childish...but oh well...
Yuppies are the legions of the corperate world. The dark side, who swap humanity for their self interested desires of the material world.
The young people who put all their ambitions into getting a big house and walking up the corporate ladder. There older counterparts are the fat bald middleaged men in suits. They scare me.
