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Are you a "Scuppie?"

Scuppie [1] [skuhp-ee] noun

n. 1 an acronym meaning “Socially Conscious Upwardly mobile Person.”

n. 2 a term coined by financial planner Chuck Failla [2] to describe a person who desires all the best life can offer and strives for those goals in a socially conscious manner.

n. 3 one who is dedicated to the pursuit of peace, happiness and cash (not necessarily in that order).

n. 4 someone “green” — i.e., one who understands that the love of money does not preclude the love of nature... and vice versa.

n. 5 the figurative love child of a hippie and a yuppie.

Usage in a sentence

“Whole Foods’ parking lot was so full of grass-fed-beef-buying, canvas-bag-toting Prius drivers that I thought I was at a scuppie convention.”



Source URL:
http://www.lime.com./blog/elizat/2008/04/01/are_you_scuppie