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yuppiedom en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From yuppie + -dom.

Meanings

  1. (slang, uncountable) The condition of being a yuppie.
    • Where Wes Anderson invites his audience to share in the absurdity of inherited wealth and Whit Stillman aestheticizes yuppiedom, Rogers agonizes over his upper-crust circumstances. 2009 August 7, Ronnie Scheib, “Filmmaker takes a personal spin”, in The Courier-Journal:
    • Richard Greenberg's witty, sometimes insightful look at the perils of yuppiedom is now at Broadway's Golden Theatre. 1989 January 16, Ruth Gilbert, “Hot Line: The tops in town this week”, in New York Magazine, page 25:
    • On the one hand, the Bonner marriage anticipates the mid-1980s ideal of yuppiedom […] 2005, Cynthia Anne Barto Lucia, Framing Female Lawyers: Women on Trial in Film, →ISBN, page 30:
    • […] the culture of yuppiedom […] seemed threatened with dissolution. 2009 August 21, Ginia Bellafante, “A Series That Shows Its Age”, in New York Times: