yopper

1. (informal) A person employed under the Youth Opportunities Programme in Britain in the 1980s.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”."informal