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Old 08-25-2006, 09:56 PM     Post subject: From the Wikipedia entry on "yuppie" #1 (permalink)  
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I thought this was worth repeating:

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* A Yumpie is a "young upwardly-mobile person". While this term is far less common, many confuse the derivation for Yuppie with that of Yumpie, and the two express broadly the same connotations anyway. Some sources (textbooks, even) state that yuppie actually stands for "young upwardly-mobile person".

* Yippie is sometimes used to refer to a person with hippie values and attire but with yuppie consumer habits. However it is most often used to describe members of the Youth International Party, who have radically different views than the average yuppie.

* A Yupster is a yuppie hipster, an upper-middle class professional who participates in the hipster cultural scene.

* Buppie is a black urban professional.

* Guppie is a gay yuppie.

* Puppie is a poor urban professional.

* Yupmo is a crossover between a yuppie and an emo.

* Yuppify and yuppification are terms used in place of the words gentrify and gentrification but with similarly negative connotations.

* A yuppie slum or yuppie ghetto refers to any neighborhood that is largely populated by a young well-off crowd, but often has other connotations of gentrification and rising rental and dining costs in a previously low-rent neighborhood.

* An ORCHID is either member of a yuppie couple with a young child. The label is an acronym for One Recent Child, Hideously In Debt.

* A yuppie food stamp is a crisp US$20 note issued by an ATM.

* DINKs (also DINKY in the UK) are well-off couples who often have much in common with "yuppies". The label is an acronym for Dual Income, No Kids [Yet].

* SITCOMs are former yuppies or DINKs. The label is an acronym for Single Income Two Children Oppressive Mortgage.

* Yuppicide is the killing of Yuppies, and vehicular yuppicide is the act of wrecking a yuppie's BMW. A New York-based hardcore/punk band in the 1990s called themselves Yuppicide.

* Yuppie Flu is a term formerly applied to Chronic fatigue syndrome, before that condition's general acceptance as a genuine medical problem.

* Organic Yuppies is a term used in the UK for yuppies and middle class thirtysomethings obsessed with food and wine.

* David Brooks characterized yuppies as bourgeois bohemians, or Bobos, in his book Bobos in Paradise. (Aka Trustifarians.)

* A variation, yuffie, is a young-urban-failure, or more generally a failed yuppie.

* Boughie (pronounced Boo-zhee—an abbreviation of the word Bourgeois), is a derogatory term originated in African American Vernacular English, and used to describe an African-American of lower-class origins, who has elevated into "upper-crust", and has forgotten (or, has chosen to forget) about their true origins. Boughies tend to have fancy or refined tastes, style, and manner in the interest of appearing more cultured or sophisticated than their ordinary upbringing would suggest. The term is used prominently by many black stand-up comedians, in urban films like Boyz N the Hood (1991), and in television sitcoms such as The Jeffersons.
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What is tl;dr?

I see it on 2p2 all the time.

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