bobo

[boh-boh]

noun

plural

bobos 

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of bobo¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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Bobo pesters the grown-ups with tons of pushy questions.

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

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“He’s not like a real African,” Bobo explains, a guileless child repeating the adults she’s overheard.

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Bobo’s father and mother are on edge.

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