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- noun Alternative spelling of
bupkis .
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Examples
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Your argument that the Yankees and their $207 million payroll are bad for baseball is bubkes.
Joshua Neuman: Letter From a Spoiled Yankees Fan Joshua Neuman 2010
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Your argument that the Yankees and their $207 million payroll are bad for baseball is bubkes.
Joshua Neuman: Letter From a Spoiled Yankees Fan Joshua Neuman 2010
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Your argument that the Yankees and their $207 million payroll are bad for baseball is bubkes.
Joshua Neuman: Letter From a Spoiled Yankees Fan Joshua Neuman 2010
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The bottom line: If Groupon's gambit is successful, then the $6 billion Google reportedly offered the start-up will ultimately look like bubkes .
Groupon's $6 Billion Gambler Bari Weiss 2010
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In 1876, when a vote for or against Rutherford B. Hayes meant bubkes, 82.9 percent of eligible voters showed up.
I Sing of Fizzy Fluid Retention P. J. O'Rourke 2007
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BEGALA: And they produced, as we say in the Catholic Church, bubkes, nothing on fundamental health care reform, except President Bush did sign a vast expansion of prescription drug benefits without any way to pay for it, which is about $800 billion added to the deficit, which helped a lot of people, but it cost a lot of money.
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The dud offer described above and a few meaningful nibbles but mostly bubkes (nothing), as they say in Pico Robertson.
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They other guy paid $45M of his own money to win bubkes except a seat on the Snake Talk Express.
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In 1876, when a vote for or against Rutherford B. Hayes meant bubkes, 82.9 percent of eligible voters showed up.
I Sing of Fizzy Fluid Retention P. J. O'Rourke 2007
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CON: Today's Enron shareholder has a promised return of bubkes, nada, squat.
Freedom, Responsibility … and What? P. J. O'Rourke 2005
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