Usage examples (30)

• Until the 1980s, a California preppy was all but oxymoronic.
• Too scruffy even to be called preppy, the young Grace Kelly liked to dress down, perhaps as an apology for those looks.
• I mean, your band, obviously, has been referred to as a preppy band, a bunch of privileged kids, you know, trying to be punkers.
• Ben: It's a reflection of the dichotomy of east meets west, it's American preppy, which is the west, mixed with our travels to the east.