yuppiedomn.
/ˈjʌpɪdəm/, U.S. /ˈjəpidəm/ colloquial (originally U.S.). Also .
The condition or fact of being a yuppie; the domain of yuppies; yuppies as a class.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > professional class > young professional > condition or state
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1984 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour (WNET/Thirteen Transcript No. 2266) 4 June 13 What a curve, that from hippiedom to Yuppiedom. Is it really possible that these Yuppies are the same people who were the counterculture?
1984 Washington Post 20 June a21/5 Yuppiedom does not conduce to a realistic view of the human condition or of American society.
1985 Sunday Tel. 26 May 11/6 Occasionally they [sc. Yuppies] are overcome by the instinct to perpetuate Yuppiedom with their little Yuppies.
1987 New Musical Express 14 Feb. 42/4 Real yuppiedom is an absence more than a presence—an absence of social conscience, of tolerance and of depth.
1988 Guardian 13 Apr. 20/2 ‘There was a great rush into the City in the early to mid-Eighties,’ reflects Mark, ‘a great boom in yuppiedom.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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