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 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.

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

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Morgan and Bobo liked to keep their home full.

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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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