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Yuppie (emoticon)

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Slang/chat, popular culture

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Many parents are ambivalent about giving their child a cell phone, worried that their child will turn into some kind of horrific miniature yuppie, or spend all their time chatting to their friends and racking up massive phone bills in the process.

Cell Phones for the Younger Market

But now our WRVS cafes face the chop over plans by the NHS to bring in yuppie coffee shops.

YOUR TEA'S OUT.. WRVS to lose cafes

It stands for Myalgic encephalomyelitis but is also known as chronic fatigue and has been dubbed yuppie flu.

DOCTORS BAFFLED BY ILLNESS

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is also called CFS; Yuppie flu; Fatigue - chronic; Chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS).

All About Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

The pig will be roasted while folk singer David Peel performs his anthem, Die Yuppie Scum

NEW YORKERS PROTEST 'YUPPIE' WILLIS

The yuppies were loaded but they were either sober or their arms were broke.

The Bluesman

CAPTION(S): Champagne and cocktails epitomised the Yuppie lifestyle

Money: 80s Yuppies 'are now skint'

NEARLY half of people who were dubbed Yuppies in the 1980s say they are now struggling financially.

Cash struggle for 'Yuppies'