yopper
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "There must be a real drive in the trade union movement and the Labour movement to recruit Yoppers and the unemployed."
- "When we came back to Blackburn I went on the Youth Opportunities Scheme and became a Yopper, which was the worst thing you could call a teenager in those days."
- "I started my first business as a Manpower allowance recipient, and, indeed, I entered my first job as a “yopper”."
- "Mrs Matheson […] owes her first taste of work after Fortrose Academy to the old Youth Opportunity Scheme […] Mrs Matheson said: "I was a Yopper first with the school cooking class and then at Tulloch Castle and the Education Centre, both in Dingwall.""
Etymology
From YOP + -er.