Meaning of yopper | Babel Free

Definitions

A person employed under the Youth Opportunities Programme in Britain in the 1980s.

informal

Examples

“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."”

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