yuppiedom

English

Etymology

yuppie +‎ -dom

Pronunciation
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Noun

yuppiedom (uncountable)

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