buppie

British  

/ ˈbʌpɪ /

noun

1. informal (sometimes capital) an affluent young Black person

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Etymology

Origin of buppie

C20: from _B ( _lack ) + ( _y ) _uppie

Example Sentences

At the heart of the disagreement between Monica and Quincy — and for that matter, Solomon and me — was our generation’s gender wars gone buppie: Could Monica really win the boy next door, play ball and have it all?

From New York Times

As characters make speeches about fatherhood and police corruption, and we sit through stiff, sentimental flashbacks to Ronnie’s stressful return from military duty in the Middle East, the show starts to feel like an earlier Showtime drama set in Chicago, the buppie soap opera “Soul Food.”

From New York Times

The poet Amiri Baraka once derisively wrote that Lee was “the quintessential buppie,” his work frivolous and bourgeois, but that is vicious.

From New York Times

Its stories of buppie frustration and romance, set in Los Angeles, aren’t revolutionary, but they’re funny and moving, powered by Ms. Rae’s ear for dialogue of a kind of crystalline, pitch-perfect profanity.

From New York Times

But those are just promises and padding for the real tale of an elderly preacher and his Buppie grandson.

From Time