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^[1], 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^[2], →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^[3]:

     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^[4]:

     […] the culture of yuppiedom […] seemed threatened with dissolution.