"huppie" meaning in English

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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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