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yuppie
Sign in to saveAlso known as young urban professional, young upwardly-mobile professional, yumpie, yap, young aspiring professional
thumb|right|325px|Anti-yuppie graffiti criticizing the gentrification of Austin, Texas
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- History
- Usage outside the United States
- In popular culture
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thumb|right|325px|Anti-yuppie graffiti criticizing the gentrification of Austin, Texas
Yuppie, short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional", is a term coined in the early 1980s for a young professional person working in a city. The term is first attested in 1980, when it was used as a fairly neutral demographic label; however, 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “yuppie” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.