When it burst onto the scene in 1984, all but a small few understood its meaning.  As suspected, many questions arose in big name magazines questioning its origins.  The word in question relates back to a certain group of folk who were just coming onto the scene.  And as described in Time magazine, they were here to stay for a good long while.

     So who's a yuppie?  Not just anyone can be classified as a yupp   :ie [young upwardly mobile professionals].  A yuppie is a young adult, maturing in the between stage of leaving college and starting a professional career.  They resemble a twenty-something hybrid with a forty year old stockbroker.  To get them thus far, they have been through the most rigorous of learning institutions.  And after the basic eight years of college they can easily land themselves jobs in the most profitable of associations, therefore enabling them to purchase a new car and city condo.  By the time [1984] yuppies were firmly planted the job market was forever changed, and the yuppie epidemic had begun.

     In 1984 the word yuppie took off like wild fire in a dry forest.  The meaning had appeared in Fortune, Washington Post, and its own handbook(The Yuppie Handbook....).  It described to many people, a group of young adults who were bound for greatness;  but on their way they dressed in un-tucked white oxfords, dark loafers with tassels and light blue jeans.  Just looking at them--while they stepped from their new 1984 Volvo sedan--made other adults wish they had started out the same.

         Presently, yuppies are stepping out of both old and new Volvos.  Those who step out of the same 1984 Volvo sedans are the original oxford wearing founding fathers.  And while you watch them cascade across the lot you unknowingly look down at their  feet, to notice those same dark loafers with the tassels.  On your way by you stare into the back window of their car, and notice a plethora of stickers; Purdue, Cornell, Harvard, alumni this and alumni that, are     listed in order of attendance down the center of the rear windshield.  In a strange way it resembles a travelers trunk, covered with stickers of where they had been.

         The other is a descendent--subspecies--of the present day yuppie.  They are the new Volvo driving, brand name wearing, trendsetters.  And as you watch them exit their car, still on your way through the parking lot, you notice them locking it with no key but a little matchbox size security system.  This time--while watching them strut across the parking lot--you feel as though you are attending a fashion show.  Their un-tucked oxford is shorter and colored;  their jeans, are not jeans, but casual business slacks; and their shoes are black loafers, loafers resembling a style put out by Doctor Frankenstien's monster himself.  This subspecies of yuppie doesn't want to be with or behind in times, but ahead, very far ahead.

         What is the dictionary meani   ûng of a yuppie?  The official meaning is a constant, with a few extras here and there.  Every meaning agrees that a yuppie's age ranged between twenty and thirty; they also agree that a yuppie is a professional who prospers greatly during their career.  Further information provided in the definitions ranged from designer water shoes to semislum homes.  The entire idea behind such a condensed definition is to include the entire race of yuppies as a whole-- even if they don't have a pair of designer water shoes!  Whatever was included in their definitions only helped to further recognize who the yuppie really was.  And although it contrasted some with my personal account, it only reinforced the facts at hand.  Yuppies were upwardly mobile folk, and they w    ere everywhere.
 Yuppie, as defined in the New Dictionary of American Slang, is explained in depth.  It describes 'yuppie's' grammatical term to be a noun, such as:  a yuppie or the yuppie.  The dictionary also describes ÒyuppieÓ as:

        An affluent..city dwelling, professional in his or her 20's and 30's; a prosperous and ambitious young professional.

         The definition provided in The Oxford English Dictionary states that the expression ÒyuppieÓ is:
A jocular term for a member of a socioeconomic group comprising young professional people working in cities.

         In America In So Many Words, yuppie is referred to a two- syllable word with the suffix ending of -ie.  In this small dictionary, ÒyuppieÓ is expressed in more understandable terms:
The yuppie was a person in you   %ng adulthood, living in or near a city, ambitious, successful, materialistic, and self-indulgent.

        ...Upwardly mobile folk with designer water, running shoes, picked parquet floors and $450,000 condos in semislum buildings.

         How do you use the term?  When using the term yuppie in sentence form you refer to it as a noun--it describes a person, or group.  Yuppie, therefore, is the subject of the sentence and should be worded like so:  Yuppies are everywhere;  Sometimes yuppies are referred to as yumpies, meaning 'young upwardly-mobile people(Times 1984).

     How did the term originate?  Four years into the eighties decade the word yuppie was born.  The first mass sighting was in 1984, by then yuppies were already on the scene.  Piesman and Hartley(the authors of The Yuppie Handbook) were the    ,first to examine and define this breed.  After these upwardly mobile, young adults were defined everyone joined in for a little slice.  The truth at hand was that not many had gotten to read the yuppie's personal handbook; so big name magazines felt it necessary to lend a hand.  In that same year five separate magazines(Times, Observer, Guardian, Washington Post and N.Y. Times) covered the new American term.

         What terms are related to yuppie?  The term yuppie has a mass following of other words related back to it.  Words that are related to yuppie(yuppie- ) mainly describe a condition to which yuppie is applied.  Yuppiedom(Also yuppydom) is a condition or fact of being yuppie; yuppieism(Also yuppyism) is the state of being a yuppie; and yuppification(Also yuppify,yuppified) is the action or process    ýby which an area, building, clothing, etc., becomes or is rendered characteristic of or suitable for yuppies(OED 786).  Another word for yuppie is yumpie, which means the same exact thing(Chapman 482).  The only difference is that it includes an extra letter from 'young upwardly-mobile professionals.'  Some of the lesser known subspecies include:   guppie(gay urban professional), puppie(pregnant urban professional), buppie(black yuppie), and suppie(a southern one).

     Being a two-syllable(suffix -ie) word, yuppie follows the pattern of other similar types of terms that describe young people.  Preppie(1962) was a half-derisive, half-affectionate term for someone who attended a private college prepatory school or who dressed--expensively and tidy--and acted like the stereotypical rich and success-bound prep-school student(Barnhart 278).  A preppie was usually a member of a rich young social group, whose members came from families who have been wealthy for many years(http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/).  Hippie(1965)     identified a whole counterculture; individuals within were usually outlandishly dressed and users of hallucinogenic drugs. Yippie(1968) came form the name of the irreverent, politically radical group of Hippie, Youth International Party; and skippie(1987) was a term addressing a school kid with income and purchasing power(Barnhart 278).

         Should yuppie be included in standard English?  What I want others to agree on is that yuppie is important enough to be admitted into standard American English.  The reason is that any word defining a race and/or culture of any given decade should automatically be accepted.  It is a term compiled of both the history and story of an American eclectic group; and is interesting enough to be a topic of discussion [ie. this paper].  Without accepting yuppie is to deny these upwardly-mobile individuals their part in our history; denying them is like denying the hippie culture of the sixties.  Yuppies weren't just one-hit-wonders, they were a new wave bound to change the current of present society.  And I feel those who attempt to make impacts should be recognized for their accomplishments.