guava, noun

1. slang. on (one’s) guava: on one’s posterior.
1975 ‘Blossom’ in Darling 95This oke sticks he’s foot out..so I trip over it and end up on my guava.
1976 ‘Blossom’ in Darling 18 Feb. 95Hanging on to ribbons so’s they doesn’t fall by mistake on they guavas.
2. [Acronym formed on the initial letters of grown (or growing) up and very ambitious.] A term used of an upwardly mobile young adult. Cf. general English ‘yuppie’.
1989 Style Feb. 125Guava: There seems to be some confusion about this demographic ugliness. Some say it stands for Growing Up and Very Ambitious, others say Grown Up And Very Ambitious and a third opinion exists that the little brutes are not Very Ambitious at all, but just Vaguely Ambitious...There are a number of professions and careers to pursue which would give the aspirant Guava sufficient velocity to be catapulted into the limelight.
1989 M. Brand in Fair Lady 25 Oct. 90Guava, grown up and very ambitious; hippies going yuppie.
1991 Style Nov. 153Exit the yuppie, enter the Guava — grown up and very ambitious.
1992 J. Michell in Style Feb. 53R— F— is a bright-eyed, 23-year-old guava (Growing Up and Vaguely Ambitious) who remembers February 23, 1991 as a big day.
1992 ‘Ivan Jellicle’ in Scope 13 Nov. 51Besides being a Guava (Growing up and very ambitious) Wayne’s also a bit of a daredevil.
on (one’s) guava:on one’s posterior.
A term used of an upwardly mobile young adult. Cf. general English ‘yuppie’.
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