Buppy
noun
a young, upwardly mobile Black professional.
Buppies
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pluralof Buppy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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For her, that means honoring parents and speaking up to them, favoring salt-of-the-earth working-class blacks over the starched Buppies and, at the end of the play, praising Jesus in scripture and song.
From Time ● Nov. 17, 2011
"Buppies" live in handsome Soweto neighborhoods like Diepkloof and drive their BMWs to work each day.
From Time Magazine Archive
