yuppie food stamp

English

Etymology

Like yuppie flu, the term originally connoted (and may still connote) contempt by working-class people for others who are perceived as rich, undeserving, and soft. The stereotype-laden imagery is that a yuppie throws twenties around like a poor person might throw food stamps around, neither one wholly deserving the resource that they are profligately consuming. Class antagonism is implicit in both directions, upward and downward.

Pronunciation

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Noun

yuppie food stamp (plural yuppie food stamps)

  1. (slang) A $20 bill, as dispensed from an ATM.
    Hypernyms: beer ticket, paper money < money; see also Thesaurus:money
    We need change, but all I have is a yuppie food stamp.
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