yuppity crowd
- noun
- Offensive
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grupo de yuppies (despectivo)
- The city's nightlife is often dominated by the yuppity crowd looking for trendy spots.
Examples
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The new restaurant quickly attracted a yuppity crowd on opening night.
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Some locals felt out of place among the yuppity crowd at the art gallery.
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The yuppity crowd gathered at the trendy café.
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I always feel out of place among the yuppity crowd.
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Some locals felt out of place among the yuppity crowd at the art gallery.
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The city's nightlife is often dominated by the yuppity crowd looking for trendy spots.
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The new restaurant quickly attracted a yuppity crowd on opening night.
Synonyms
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A group of popular people who set trends others follow
A group of people who think they are better than others
A group of people who are rich and try to seem better than others
A group of people who like new clothes and styles
Antonyms
How Elitist
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Surface Forms
Morphology
yuppity + crowd
The element 'yuppity' is transparently derived from 'yuppie' (young urban professional) and functions like an adjective; combined with 'crowd' it straightforwardly yields 'a crowd of yuppies' or people with yuppie characteristics. This adjective+noun composition follows normal English patterns and would be immediately inferable by a B1 learner who knows the constituent words, despite the informal/rare nature of 'yuppity'.
Etymology
The phrase yuppity crowd comes from the word yuppie, a short form for 'young urban professional', and the word crowd, which creates a picture of young, well-dressed city people gathered together. So it now means a group of young city professionals who often seem 'elitist' or 'pretentious'.