bobo

American  

[boh-boh] / ˈboʊ boʊ /

noun

plural

bobos

1. Informal. a liberal, highly educated person who combines a bourgeois, affluent lifestyle with nonconformist values and attitudes.

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Etymology

Origin of bobo

1995-2000; bo(urgeois) ¹ + bo(hemian); from the book Bobos in Paradise by U.S. journalist David Brooks

Example Sentences

The version on “All My Relations,” recorded in 1994 under the title “Hymne to the Mother,” began with Bobo Stenson plucking strings inside his piano and a steady pulse of cymbal strikes from drummer Billy Hart.

From The Wall Street Journal

They traveled with her to Cambridge, Mass., when she and her husband, Lawrence Bobo, accepted faculty positions at Harvard in 1998.

From The Wall Street Journal

Morgan and Bobo liked to keep their home full.

From The Wall Street Journal

Bobo’s white immigrant family backs his Western-educated opponent Bishop Abel Muzorewa.

From Los Angeles Times

The pull of the film lies in how Davidtz allows Bobo to bob on the surface of things while we feel the dark undertow.

From Los Angeles Times