yopper
Noun
A person employed under the Youth Opportunities Programme in Britain in the 1980s.
Usage- Informal
- Examples
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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.
More examples (2)
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."
Word forms
yoppers