What is Yuppie?
{{context|date=April 2024}} [[File:Paranienormalni yuppie.tif|thumb|200px]] [[File:Yuppies Go West - SXSW 08 (2319850815).jpg|thumb|250px|Anti-yuppie [[graffiti]] criticizing the [[gentrification]] in [[Austin, Texas]].]] '''Yuppie''' (derived from ''young upwardly-mobile professional'' or ''young urban professional''<ref>{{Cite book| title = Fifty Years Among the New Words: A Dictionary of Neologisms| last = Algeo| first = John| year = 1991| isbn = 0-521-41377-X| publisher = Cambridge University Press| page = 220}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia | year = 2002 | encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture | publisher = Routledge | location = London | editor1-first = Peter | editor1-last = Childs | editor2-first = Mike | editor2-last = Storry | title = Acronym Groups | pages = 2–3 }}</ref>) is a type of skilled worker. The word was coined in the early [[1980s]], originally in the [[United States]], to denote a young [[White-collar worker|white-collar]] professional working in a city. Yuppies are generally professionals between 20 to 40 years old, usually from an intermediate living standard between the [[Middle class|middle]] and [[upper class]]. The word first appeared in a May 1980 ''[[Chicago (magazine)|Chicago]]'' magazine article by [[Dan Rottenberg]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{US-stub}} [[Category:Slang]]