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Buppy

American

[buhp-ee] / ˈbʌp i /

Or Buppie

noun

a young, upwardly mobile Black professional.

Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

Buppies

plural

Etymology

Origin of Buppy

An Americanism first recorded in 1980–85; B(lack) u(rban) p(rofessional), on the model of yuppie

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