huppie

Example Sentences

• "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)."
• "Wiscovitch calls himself a “huppie”. Which, he translates, is a Hispanic Yuppie."
• "The vato is a Huppie. HErbErt: What's a Huppie? ric: You know, a Hispanic Yuppie."
• "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."
• ""Look who's talking." "Hippie, huppie, baldy," screamed a voice. "Oh my gosh, it's Annabel again.""
• "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."