Preppy

Preppy is a chiefly American adjective traditionally used to describe the characteristics of White, Anglo-Saxon, patrician Protestants (usually with some personal or familial connection to New England, even if only historic) who attend or attended major private, secondary university-preparatory schools. These characteristics include particular subcultural speech, vocabulary, accent, dress, mannerisms, etiquette, and general way of being. In 1980, Lisa Birnbach wrote the Official Preppy Handbook, a tongue-in-cheek "guide" to what she termed "prepdom." The term "preppy" is similar in formation to hippie or yuppie, and had great currency in the 1970s and 1980s. Many Americans first heard the term in the 1970 Arthur Hiller film Love Story.

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