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"yuppie" Definitions
  1. a young professional person who lives in a city and earns a lot of money that they spend on expensive and fashionable things
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"There's a phenomenon that we call 'yuppie liquid'," said Jacobs.
Get that shit out of my face you filthy yuppie.
The ultimate yuppie muppet probably lives in an organic compost bin.
Have there been hippie Apleys, yuppie Apleys and stoner Apleys since?
When they try yuppie shit around here, it lasts like three months.
Trump, the square WASP, grew up to become a filthy rich yuppie.
It's a road movie and a satire about Reagan-era yuppie culture.
Ivy League–aspiring yuppie obsessed with money and Ronald Reagan; Rubio, on the
That, in his estimation, the term "yuppie" had lost descriptive traction decades ago?
Just basically driving out anybody who is really not a rich yuppie basically.
" Despite the commiseration of co-workers, a yuppie may find that "guess what?
Yuppie (young urban professional) feelings aside, I was very pleased with the hot dog.
By 1980 they had become the yuppie, and they concentrated on a certain cultural perfectionism.
Ali Wong's Bertie is order: a neurotic yuppie with a penchant for fussy French pastry.
Hours Dunne starred as a yuppie on the loose when there was still plenty of
Before a bunch of yuppie goons took over the streets of Manhattan, they belonged to kids.
And you didn't have a yuppie from Oklahoma elbowing you, oblivious as she stared into her iPhone.
The Griswolds live next door to a married couple who represent the yuppie class of the 1980s.
When they said bitchily in the Village Voice that it's yuppie art, by God they were right.
Casper came onto the stage in 2013 and catapulted boxed mattresses into the urban yuppie lifestyle canon.
The term "yuppie" now feels so dated that it occasionally seems an entire social class has vanished.
For a super classy date night, there's Violet Crown Cinema in the bustling yuppie Second Street District.
The neighborhood became the backdrop for the kind of yuppie lifestyle reflected on Sex and the City.
Patient advocates say the condition has a history of being dismissed as "yuppie flu" or plain indolence.
Noisey: You live in Somerville, which, according to Wikipedia, has had "anti-yuppie graffiti appearing around town".
" Cut to bike yuppie: "They take choice and control away from patients and give it to politicians.
First, because Walmart — via its Jet subsidiary, but still, Walmart — was buying a somewhat yuppie mens clothing brand.
J.C. Pan in "The New Yuppies" delves into two new book on the current state of the Yuppie.
"The passion for Things and the hunger to acquire them are deeply rooted in yuppie culture," he writes.
"He would always talk about the yuppie people moving to the Lower East Side," his son Dominic said.
For a super classy date night, there's Violet Crown Cinema in the bustling yuppie district of Second Street.
It was perception, was a hippie, counting some pennies, and reality is a yuppie with an American Express card.
The negative side of this change lies in the supposed reduction of once diverse neighborhoods to monotone yuppie dormitories.
If we can't have cheap rents and "authenticity" anymore, at least give us places to drown our yuppie sorrows.
"It's not like it's this lovingly restored, yuppie, crafted cocktails kind of place," she continued, referring to the Pavilion.
But all of my efforts to drown this yuppie trinket hive in the toilet have seemingly been in vain.
Not that they'd have to: Yuppie office attire has gone from suit and tie to free T-shirt and headphones.
We live with the consequences of slippage, called by many ugly names, with "yuppie" usually thrown in for good measure.
I spoke with several mobsters, including Crazy Phil Leonetti of the Philly family and the so-called "Yuppie Don" Michael Franzese.
Yuppie Psycho feels like it came directly from people who are all too familiar with toxic workplaces, and it feels right.
The argument is that the arrival of yuppie professionals sipping kombucha will alter the character of a place in an unseemly way.
Bringing quality goods does not mean that we are trying to turn this place into a mixed use building selling yuppie products.
The Ophelia speaker helps establish its owners, the mostly unsympathetic Tylers, as a yuppie family with a penchant for useless high-tech toys.
The tech industry is partially responsible for making a yuppie paradise out of the character-filled place where I grew up, probably forever.
Phil is, as mentioned earlier, a Yuppie Buddhist of the lowest form, but he was just trying to give some dap to Mahmoud.
The list of yuppie-friendly amenities includes streets full of bike lanes and a walkable downtown full of bars, restaurants and marijuana shops.
I dressed as yuppie as possible, in skinny-fit slacks with a pink polo, the buttons done all the way to the top.
Instead, it feels like an attempt to persuade reform-minded people that "the public" — minivan mom, yuppie bike guy, diner grandpa — feels differently.
The mall-set "Dawn of the Dead" (on Saturday and in a 2727-D version on March 28110) sent up mindless yuppie consumerism.
When Walmart — the largest U.S. retailer — acquired Bonobos — a somewhat yuppie mens clothing brand — for $310 million in June, it seemed a bit surprising.
Christian Bale's yuppie archetype really hits the bad boyfriend trifecta: He cheats, he kills and he takes longer to get ready than you do.
She self-deprecatingly alludes to being a "bad friend" who lives with her husband in "an overpriced converted yuppie loft complex" that she despises.
If you were a certain kind of yuppie you would try to make your own, you would buy a pasta maker 30 years ago.
As of 2012, we were also spending 18 percent more on luxury goods than our yuppie boomer forebears, according to one American Express survey.
What this mostly means is trying to reconcile her attachment to Rex with her engagement to David, a sacrificial yuppie played by Max Greenfield.
That's right, America's baseball dad and the star of The Postman and Swing Vote starred as a beleaguered yuppie in an old Apple commercial.
I'd rather live in a cabin away from civilization than be like some kind of Patrick Bateman-esque yuppie always trying to fit in.
The architecture sums up the contradictions: Edwardian houses with sash windows mingle with yuppie flats and recognisably Mediterranean buildings, all flat roofs and big shutters.
There's no evidence that Apple plans to open an online store that sells everything or buy a yuppie grocery store chain in the near future.
It's natural, but do so, and miss both the fact that Bernie remains the toast of the beach and the stinging commentary on yuppie solipsism.
Even though I felt like a yuppie most of the day — or like a character out of a John Hughes film — I didn't really mind.
"This city is dead," says a prototypical white yuppie as she rides a Muni bus in the new film The Last Black Man in San Francisco.
In 2004, Mayor Michael Bloomberg tried to ban the Mister Softee song, part of his effort to turn the city into a more tranquil yuppie idyll.
In a 1976 New York cover article he coined "the 'Me' Decade" to describe the 1970s, which I'd misremembered as some trifling swipe at yuppie narcissism.
The hedonism of the '70s had given way to a new and necessary decadent rage ("Die yuppie scum," as the rioters against East Village gentrification declared).
Mr. Buffett came into the national imagination in the 260s, just in time to become a counterpoint to what would end up being called the Yuppie generation.
She'd find me boring and call me a yuppie: the biggest insult of the '90s before "hipster" came into power and became the deadliest insult of all.
SIPPING tea in the corner of a chic café in Kowloon, a commercial district of Hong Kong, Andy Chan seems like just another yuppie on his lunch break.
This month marks 25 years since the publication of Bret Easton Ellis's magnum opus on yuppie scum, and Entertainment Weekly reminds us the manuscript had a troubled journey.
It was still a yuppie concert with food trucks and classy canned wine; there wasn't even a pit, just lines of chairs for the slightly more well-heeled.
Headlines announced that it wasn't just Woodward, but the "yuppie" lifestyle writ large on trial, and the mother, Deborah Eappen, was harshly criticized for not staying at home.
Interestingly enough, using the Key 2 didn't make me feel like a yuppie at all, which is strange because that's exactly the kind of user the phone's targeting.
Yuppie Psycho just goes one step further, with posters that spell out just how disposable you are, and, right, ok, mutants and mummies and occult symbols in blood.
Elsewhere (but not St. Elsewhere), we touch on the missed marks of Katana Zero, the delightful puzzling of Boxboy + Boxgirl, and some campy workplace hell in Yuppie Psycho.
It is no surprise that one of the enduring images I have of the 1980s is a yuppie drinking a Diet Coke after a particularly strenuous game of squash.
Before Bozeman went full yuppie, it was, as Montanans put it in the least derogatory way possible, a cowtown — the ag school counterpart to Missoula's liberal-artsy college town.
In yet another play for Starbuck's core yuppie following, there's even a "farmers' market protein box," which has Genoa salami, cheddar cheese, snap peas, sliced apples, crackers and almonds.
Booming downtown Warsaw with its yuppie bars is no reflection of the conditions in depopulated rural Poland, where risk of poverty is almost twice as high as in cities.
A salesman at the family tire dealership, he's the yuppie type Lezlie disdains, or, at least, he aspires to be: he and Tawney share a McMansion decorated in pastels.
And it's a black-and-white satire about yuppie New York now, and the lead character runs an agency in Williamsburg, and they're repping an augmented-reality device called Augmenta.
Someone yuppie couple out there has definitely made "Fake Plastic Trees" their own "Crash Into Me," and I'd prefer not to think about the babies spawned from such aggressive earnestness.
My brother is a couple of years younger than I am and shares my memories of the yuppie decadence and apocalyptic structural decay that characterized Los Angeles in the 1980s.
Although it's never stated on the menu, all these canned cocktails come with top-shelf spirits like Fair, a yuppie-friendly vodka distilled from fairtrade Bolivian quinoa, and Ocho tequila.
In my mind, these synth-heavy, experimental songs were the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist, one about a yuppie losing his soul to expensive materialism in '80s Los Angeles.
The Second Mountain eventually trundles into a vague spiritual awakening, but it is also almost admirably straightforward about the fact that it is a book by a yuppie and for yuppies.
Protagonist Patrick Bateman is another slick, sociopathic murderer who worships Collins, and the same sexual encounter that begins with Patrick blasting "In Too Deep" ends when the psycho-yuppie butchers two prostitutes.
Aside from the missteps, I was compelled to see Brian's adventure to the end, and see what completely, wonderfully batshit places Yuppie Psycho goes (and oh, friends, it goes to so many).
Into the vacuum have moved Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, bright, conventionally wisdomed, yuppie New Yorkers who have never had to formulate or defend a complicated foreign policy position in their lives.
Director John Carpenter's action-satire of 1980s yuppie America has become exemplary of anyone who can't quite believe the out-of-whack priorities of all the idiots they're forced to live near.
When he can't quite fit into the elite yuppie world, he finds himself under the wing of a local drug dealer, who recruits him to start slinging dope to the neighborhood rich kids.
And yet, according to a new report from Bloomberg, you could make your yuppie juice more quickly if you threw the machine out the window and hand-squeezed the bad into your glass.
When Kendall scans the crowd "like a yuppie Robocop" for important people, just about everyone is present and accounted for: Sandy Furness and Stewie, Rhea Jarrell, even Lawrence from Vaulter, may it rest.
As musicians raged against yuppie culture and Wall Street types viewed as denigrating the East Village's authenticity, hardcore coming from DC and Los Angeles—bands like Bad Brain, Minor Threat, Black Flag—became commonplace.
AR: The obvious comparison point might be a film like American Psycho, which teases the idea that we can't tell whether its protagonist Patrick Bateman is a sociopathic fantasist yuppie or a mass murderer.
The battleground state of Ohio is an especially exquisite composite of the entire country with elements of the farm belt, rust belt, military bases, and upper middle class urban yuppie life all in one.
I think a lot about this one scene: Wayne and Garth, having sold their public access show to the enterprising capitalist yuppie Benjamin, arrive at the set of their newly slick, ad-supported program.
I enjoy lumberjack cosplay as much as the next yuppie but I'm also old and lazy and don't want to carry 500 logs a grand total of 10 yards, five logs at a time.
Ehrenreich set out to rediscover the lost land of the working class as a self-conscious representative of the complacent middle class, in order to send word back and stimulate the numbed yuppie conscience.
The pair was crucial in influencing American rock music between the death of the hippie era and the start of the yuppie years (indeed, Mr Stein coined the term "New Wave" to describe the genre).
The whole thing is eerily reminiscent of High-Rise, J.G. Ballard's 1975 novel about a luxury apartment building equipped with everything a yuppie could dream of—its own supermarket, school, hair salon, restaurant, and gym.
It is possible to build good relations with neighbours, he says; his night club, like many new ones, doubles as a restaurant and hosts vintage markets, which makes it more acceptable to nearby yuppie families.
After a near-death experience Bertram Pincus, a misanthropic Manhattan dentist played by a sniveling Ricky Gervais, starts to see dead people — namely, a two-timing yuppie (Greg Kinnear) who was hit by a bus.
I head out to the Tenderloin and hit the dive bar the Brown Jug, because the people you're going to encounter there are not yuppie San Franciscans, they're OG, triple OG, all walks of life.
They felt pity for sellouts of an earlier generation, like the hippie-turned-yuppie boomers whose idea of a payday was a crushing yellow-tie job in finance or law and a BMW 5-series.
You got these yuppie rednecks who got these big fancy trucks and ain't never hit a mudhole in their lives, ain't never worked a day in their lives, don't even know how to shoot a gun.
Yet I embraced the challenge of eating like a yuppie cavewoman, not realizing that by placing the entire onus of getting pregnant on myself, I was actually starting to sabotage my chances of having a child.
Baby Boom portrays the glorious 80s: a synth-pop opening theme song—complete with keyboards and wailing saxophone, women clad in sneakers and power suits (with requisite shoulder pads), and depictions of the uptight yuppie couple.
Meanwhile, Cuarón and his older brother Carlos — with whom he co-wrote the screenplay — take advantage of their scoundrel antihero's job and proclivities to riff on TV commercials, and to document yuppie life in early 1990s Mexico.
Indeed, given the large class gap in marriage rates, it's likely that traditional stay-at-home moms are more likely to be found in feminist-laden yuppie neighborhoods like mine than in more typical swaths of America.
Al Pacino knows this material works best as comedy and treats it as such, while McConaughey walks the fine line between laid back and lazy, oscillating between Weirdly Mystical Future Luxury Car Spokesperson and mere mellow yuppie.
For the better part of a decade, since 1987's power-yuppie double-play of Wall Street and Fatal Attraction, he'd excelled at playing rich assholes in films like The War of the Roses, Basic Instinct, and Disclosure.
Presumably, you buckled your seat belt, synced up your phone to the radio—or plugged in an aux cable if you're old skool—and maybe wondered if you put the coffee grounds back in their airtight container (yuppie).
Her book The Sum of Small Things offers a rich anthropological portrait of the "aspirational class"—a type of neo-yuppie that defines itself through understated modes of consumption and an emphasis on the accrual of cultural capital.
This is something of a shift from the Reagan era, when Newsweek dubbed 1984 the "year of the yuppie," marking perhaps the closest thing we've come in recent decades to a country where financial capitalism achieved national worship.
Google's autonomous cars may look cute, like a yuppie cross between a Little Tikes Cozy Coupe and a sheet of flypaper, but to make it in the real world they're going to have to act like calculating predators.
"I like quieter venues and so usually go to rather arty, yuppie places," she said, while sipping a brew at downtown Mellower Coffee, which has coffees with names like "sweet little rain" - an Americano with a "cloud" of candyfloss.
Our failure to mack on John wasn't necessarily presented as a "lose" state (and god help anyone who thinks of the other ending where you wind up in a relationship with Pissing Contest Yuppie John as a "win" state).
More than 30 years later, in their 2013 essay "Death of a Yuppie Dream," the Ehrenreichs reported that the once-ascendant PMC was on its last legs, fractured by decades of technological advances, job outsourcing, and attacks on labor.
"American Psycho" (2000), adapted from Bret Easton Ellis's openly misogynist best seller, turns the book on its head, transforming the notion of a status-obsessed yuppie serial sex killer into the anti-masculinist satire Ellis claims it always was.
In one, Daniel drifts into the orbit of an antique dealer named Lezlie, a Pan-like anarchist, who invites anyone who is not a gentrifying yuppie—the class he regards as ruining Paulie—to party at his ramshackle house.
It was a holdover from the if-you've-got-it-flaunt-it '80s that called to mind Patrick Bateman, the brand-obsessed yuppie sociopath in "American Psycho," who trumpeted his taste for luxe with a two-tone Rolex Datejust.
Or maybe they're part of the vaporwave movement, a twofold visual and music subculture that evolved on the internet alongside seapunk and thrives on retro aesthetics, early glitchy computer art, and the intersection between yuppie-era capitalism and kitsch.
The article cites club owners Eelko Anceaux of Amsterdam's De Marktkantine and Dimitri Hegemann, a founder of Berlin's Tresor who lament the loss of unused space, sky-rocketing real estate, and the emergence of "yuppie families" who call in noise complaints.
The anti-weed Steven Spielberg co-executive produced this story about a yuppie couple who gets a too-good-to-be-true deal on a mansion, so having this on the "best comedies to watch while stoned" list is a must.
With those political questions comes the intrusive awareness that Israel is a country that carries many complex meanings for many different people, and it begins to feel dismissive to reduce it to a symbolic supporting player in the portrait of a yuppie marriage.
For instance, Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild"—the "theme song" from Easy Rider—replaces the 1960's hippie/druggie bikers Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda with a 1990's yuppie photojournalist who travels with his camcorder from continent to continent on his motorcycle.
Clifton (John Savage), a white, Celtics-jersey-clad possible yuppie, scuffs the new Air Jordans of the aspiring black activist Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito), touching off a confrontation in which the smug Clifton reveals he just bought a brownstone on the block.
In the staid auto industry, the brash Mr. Agee, who gained a reputation as a rock star chief executive (Fortune called him "America's first yuppie"), had earned fame for ushering in business casual, doing away with boardroom tables and shunning executive parking spaces.
Just to the west of the station is Normandie Court, a block-square apartment megalith of some three dozen stories, once known as Dormandie Court, for the postcollegiate settlers who keg-partied there, during the great yuppie migration of the eighties and nineties.
She soon became an early collector of his furniture: With its obvious seams and wild mix of nuts and bolts — old sewage parts for backrests, stolen manhole covers as seats — it was a rebuke to the era's chrome-and-black-leather yuppie aesthetic.
Ms. Hidalgo was derided as "Notre-Drame de Paris" ("our drama queen") by a business magazine, Challenges, and branded "Queen of the Bobos" (bourgeois bohemians) by conservative opponents who accuse her of catering to the left-leaning yuppie voters of a gentrified French capital.
I. with a flask in his suit-pants; the longhair whooping it up for civil rights and the Dead; a yuppie with one of those huge beige cell phones; Ethan Hawke in Reality Bites; a kid in a unisex American Apparel zip-up, texting.
I wanted so badly to be just like them: middle-class, comfortable, seen, loved, career-driven, relationship-driven, tortured by tiny things but overall a good, upstanding yuppie trying to navigate her place between her idealistic values and what the world demanded of her.
This might be what's happening in the Netflix series "Russian Doll," in which a loutish white software engineer (the Harry) learns that her fate is conjoined, via a kind of wormhole (I know!), with that of a fastidious, depressed young black yuppie (her Sally).
Local newspapers heave with tales from the battle lines: struggles between residents and property developers, vandalised yuppie flats and bars, squats stormed by police officers, cars torched in protest at one thing or another and conflicts between the city's world-renowned night clubs and its zoning lawyers.
Yuppie Psycho puts you in the role of Brian Pasternack, a "class G" citizen offered a job at Sintracorp (a glossy megacorporation that makes/does god knows what) that'll bring him right up to class A. If he sells his soul (or much, much worse), naturally.
It's one of several gentrifying buds that has sprouted on East Cesar Chavez in the past few years, and it's certainly not as bad as the recently opened "cat cafe" or the yuppie coffee-table bookstore that's pushed out those living and working in the historic Latino neighborhood.
Framed by two therapy sessions between Tony and his new psychiatrist, Dr. Jennifer Melfi (Lorraine Bracco), "The Sopranos" pilot defies expectations at every turn — beginning with the way it compares the familiar mob milieu of seedy dives and old Italian-American neighborhoods with the yuppie trappings of the suburbs.
DeWanda Wise plays Nola, an artist (yes, she lives in Fort Greene) with three lovers: Jamie, an uptight yuppie (Lyriq Bent); Greer, a narcissist (Cleo Anthony); and Mars Blackmon, the fast-talker Lee played in the original (here played by Anthony Ramos, who was John Laurens and Philip in Hamilton).
But eventually she began scattering in posts that signified a growing comfort with the medium — sort of how J.C. Wyatt (Diane Keaton), the prototypical yuppie in Meyers's 1987 screenplay "Baby Boom," grew fonder of her inherited daughter once the child spent a few weeks crawling around her toddler-unfriendly Manhattan apartment.
Like his protagonist, he relished being naughty but yearned to be rich; those desires were hardly irreconcilable in a city that simultaneously embraced the materialism of the Reagan era and rejected its moralism, where stretch limos deposited partygoers in unseemly neighborhoods and yuppies ran rampant while "Die Yuppie Scum" graffiti spread.
The capital of Ohio, one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, lives largely in the future tense: There's a palpable energy when walking through yuppie-centric Short North, drinking with strangers around a bonfire in the still-bohemian Olde Towne East, or strolling along the new riverfront.
That doesn't mean we guilt-trip our yuppie friends into trying to let us live for free, the way the RENT characters do; it means that, if we choose to stay, we Make It Work: we move to the outer boroughs with roommates and/or take on several jobs at once.
Dolce, to his credit, addresses the one truly dark undercurrent of this new movement — that white yuppie grown-up users are getting a place in the mainstream while inner-city black kids caught dealing or even possessing the drug are still going to jail (getting "a ticket to orange," as Dolce puts it).
It's interesting, right, the professional mom, yuppie mom, whatever adjective you want to use, market huge, right, online should be huge and we're a little bit past this now but I remember when our kids were younger my wife was spending time on the Park Slope Parents listserv, which is a Yahoo email group.
In "Juan," the son (played by Armisen) of the titular chef is supposed to take over his father's tiny chicken and rice restaurant, located amid mountains so remote that it's only visited by locals and yuppie food enthusiasts from the US, who take pride in having made the trip as much as they do in eating the food.
"I look like James Spader in "Baby Boom," and it's everything I wanted as a kid," said Rannells, whose callow yuppie Blair is caught between his spoiled fiancée (Wilson) and Mo. Other examples include the aforementioned Limbo, the obligatory brick-size cellphones and ample interior design indulgences, like Dawn's mauve and black lacquer dream of an apartment.
I see shapes of my actions, but they're coupled with fabulation: Attending a family wedding (happened) where my date was a cam girl (didn't), a friend using a float tank (happened) but almost drowning (didn't), my dog getting out and barking at a yuppie (happened) who casts him as 'Young Moose' in a prequel-series about Frasier's dad (didn't, yet).
The creators of "Thirtysomething" always said it was a show about the small moments of life, and it was this smallness, now in my second watching, that made me understand why I'd gotten so attached in the first place: close-up expressions, close-up emotion, tiny gestures, the recognition of each character as a sub-archetype of the main yuppie archetype.
It was a fascinating story because it was a working mother, a doctor married to an Indian, they were living just outside Boston, and it felt like everything in the moment that was yuppie in America at that time, following on from "163something," coalesced in this story about this girl who was working for not very much money, looking after their child.
A Word With Like the light glinting off his hundred-carat smile, Taye Diggs's career has bounced all over the place: the loathsome yuppie landlord in "Rent," his Broadway breakthrough; the pulse-quickening young Jamaican in "How Stella Got Her Groove Back," his film debut; and a succession of charismatic television professionals — most recently his Obama-esque mayoral candidate in "Empire," who was killed off last season.
And, yes, maybe the south bay isn't the coolest place to live these days, but the crowd danced and bopped its head to the new material with the type of respect you're supposed to show your elders because even in the yuppie-fied Hermosa of 2016, Descendents are still viewed as local-boys-done-good for more-or-less creating pop punk and, an argument can be made, emo.

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