huppie

English

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Etymology 1

Blend of Hispanic +‎ yuppie

Noun

huppie (plural huppies)

1. (slang) A Hispanic yuppie; an affluent professional of Latin American descent.
   • 1986 August 20, Michael Spies, “Bilingual comic uses the language of laughter”, in Houston Chronicle:

     Among the work he has been doing have been films such as “D.C. Cab” and this year’s “Quicksilver”, a Kevin Bacon Wall-Street-on-wheels vehicle, in which he played an aspiring huppie (Hispanic Urban Professional).

   • 1989 March 3, Maurice Carroll, “Pols and Politics; Political Writers Ready for Show”, in Newsday (New Your):

     Wiscovitch calls himself a “huppie”. Which, he translates, is a Hispanic Yuppie.

   • 1997, Culture Clash, Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy, →ISBN, page 52:

     The vato is a Huppie. HErbErt: What's a Huppie? ric: You know, a Hispanic Yuppie.

   • 1999 February 15, Greg Hinz, “Vying for Hot Hispanic Votes”, in Crain’s Chicago Business:

     Mr. Munoz stresses that the crime rate has been dropping in Little Village and that he backs a tax-increment financing district in his ward — a controversial stance in other Hispanic areas. Because the neighborhood is improving, “folks like me — yuppies, luppies, huppies, whatever you want to call them — will be able to find homes here,” he says, referring to the Latino and Hispanic variations of young urban professionals.

Etymology 2

Blend of hippie +‎ yuppie

Noun

huppie (plural huppies)

1. (slang) An affluent professional with stereotypical left-wing social and political views or lifestyle.
   • 1993, Delia Ephron, The Girl who Changed the World, page 92:

     "Look who's talking." "Hippie, huppie, baldy," screamed a voice. "Oh my gosh, it's Annabel again."

   • 2010, Mark Pendergrast, Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World, →ISBN, page 347:

     He accused the well-intentioned folks who sell Fair Trade coffee of "cultural imperialism," blasting those who blend "suffering, pain, and humiliation" into the beans they sell to "the affluent but guilt-ridden, Birkenstock-shod, politically correct, myopically naive creature known as the huppie”—whom he defined as a combination hippie-yuppie.

   • 2010 June 8, Jason Sheftell, “East Side story: Off Avenue D, The Flowerbox is the best building you've never seen”, in New York Daily News:

     To be a huppie, you have to know how to make a little money. You want to live well, but keep in touch with the real world.