Yuppie

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.

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

[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.

[oed-3] "yuppie, n.". Oxford English Dictionary. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved May 20, 2016.

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