yuppie food stamp en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Like yuppie flu, the term originally connoted (and may still connote) contempt by working-class people for others who are perceived as rich, undeserving, and soft. The stereotype-laden imagery is that a yuppie throws twenties around like a poor person might throw food stamps around, neither one wholly deserving the resource that they are profligately consuming. Class antagonism is implicit in both directions, upward and downward.
Meanings
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(slang) A $20 bill, as dispensed from an ATM.
We need change, but all I have is a yuppie food stamp.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| yuppie food stamps | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Hypernyms
cheese · paper money · rhino · tender · shrapnel · bread and honey · brass · ackers · clams · paper · beer ticket · feds · ching · money · jack · flow · moola · coin · mazuma · swag · wampum · bread · Bugs Bunny · cake · simoleons · smackeroonies · cream · gwolla · lovely jubbly · currency · funding · cheddar · dough · dinero · dosh · flizz · money · funds · lolly · bees and honey · smackers · yenom · gwop · bones · muck · smackeroos · means · scrilla · oof · spondulicks · spend · gravy · fedi · blunt · wonga · scratch · legal tender · ooftish · mozzarella · finances