Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A young black city or suburban resident with a well-paid professional job and an affluent lifestyle.
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- noun US, slang short for "
black urban professional ", aAfrican American subset of theyuppie category. The group includes black professionals and executives in their late twenties and early thirties.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Harmond and Mame are a classic Clintonian "buppie" Black urban professional couple.
Archive 2005-08-01 Ron Buckmire 2005
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Harmond and Mame are a classic Clintonian "buppie" Black urban professional couple.
REVIEW: August Wilson's "Radio Golf" Ron Buckmire 2005
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This is truly a world away from Nottage's last play to have a British production - the wickedly bold 'buppie' satire Fabulation, which, she delightedly confesses, so discomfited white audiences in the US that at first they had to plant black people in the audience to show them it was OK to laugh.
Home 2010
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This is truly a world away from Nottage's last play to have a British production - the wickedly bold 'buppie' satire Fabulation, which, she delightedly confesses, so discomfited white audiences in the US that at first they had to plant black people in the audience to show them it was OK to laugh.
Home 2010
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By contrast, I could never endorse a candidate who held such views were he running in the 35th Councilmanic (which includes the buppie communities of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Prospect Heights)
The Adventues of Rocky and Gatewinkel (or When Gatemouth Met Hackshaw) 2010
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By contrast, I could never endorse a candidate who held such views were he running in the 35th Councilmanic (which includes the buppie communities of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Prospect Heights)
The Adventues of Rocky and Gatewinkel (or When Gatemouth Met Hackshaw) 2010
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By contrast, I could never endorse a candidate who held such views were he running in the 35th Councilmanic which includes the buppie communities of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Prospect Heights
The Adventues of Rocky and Gatewinkel (or When Gatemouth Met Hackshaw) Room Eight 2010
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Neo-soulish, post-modern buppie Blackness getting old: "urban."
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Our majority-buppie neighborhood is really hurting from the mortgage crisis.
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They are bright, accomplished, decent, they know all about the yuppie experience, the buppie experience, Ivy League ways, networking.
Peggy Noonan Condescends to Barack Obama on "Authenticity" « Lean Left 2008
muamor commented on the word buppie
The word buppie (also buppy); meaning a black urban (or upwardly-mobile) professional; a yuppie who's black, was invented by the US media in 1984 as one of several variations on the theme of yuppie. Unlike some of the others--such as guppie, juppie (a Japanese yuppie), and puppie (a pregnant yuppie)-- this one caught on: perhaps because it identified a distinct group which was obviously rejecting its 'roots' culture in favour of the values and aspirations of a yuppie peer group. Oxford Dictionary of new words.
March 1, 2008
vendingmachine commented on the word buppie
I abhor words like this one.
October 12, 2015