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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(informal) A person employed under the Youth Opportunities Programme in Britain in the 1980s..
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."
Use yopper when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Yopper means (informal) A person employed under the Youth Opportunities Programme in Britain in the 1980s..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
There must be a real drive in the trade union movement and the Labour movement to recruit Yoppers and the unemployed.
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