yuppie

名词 n.
/ˈjʌpɪ/    /ˈjʌpi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle. dated,derogatory,informal,sometimes
    — [David] Wain packs They Came Together with supporting characters, most of them variations on stock rom-com archetypes—the exes, the siblings, the co-workers, the yuppie parents, and so forth.

词形变化

yuppies plural yuppy alternative

词源

Originally an acronym for young upwardly mobile professional or young urban professional, + -ie (suffix forming noun signifying person associated with suffixed noun).
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