yuppie
(plural yuppies) (also yuppy) /ˈjʌpi/ noun [C] (US also YAP)Definition
› a young person who lives in a city, earns a lot of money, and spends it doing fashionable things and buying expensive possessions: a yuppie bar/flat the yuppie consumer/market The term jetset can no longer be confined to yuppies, and international business executives.
(Definition of yuppie noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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