bubba

plural bubbas

1. Southern USchildishBrother; used as term of familiar address.

   "Hey, bubba, is that really you? Goddamn. I haven't heard from you in a coon's age." / "Don't 'hey, bubba' me, you sonofabitch.

   2007, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Low Red Moon, page 27

2. A working-class white male from the southern US, stereotyped as loutish.

   Their subjects were not bubbas from the bayous but affluent students at the University of Michigan who had lived in the South for at least six years.

   2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 120

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   Will Ferrell and his creative partner, the writer and director Adam McKay, are, let’s face it, our national poets on the subject of dimwitted, bubba arrogance and the redemptive powers of failure, their poems seemingly conceived in a midnight frenzy of brilliance on the back of a bag of Doritos.

   2009 February 13, Ginia Bellafante, “A Pitcher’s Life After the Third Strike”, in New York Times

1. Southern USThe stereotypical white male; John Doe.

   German businesses wonder what Otto Normalverbraucher will buy, while US politicians fret over who Bubba will vote for in the next US election.

2. Southern USA generic nickname for any white male.

   Watch it, Bubba!

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   [Bill] Clinton knew and maintained a lifelong affection for the small-town Arkansans world in which he had been reared—he relished being called Bubba—and delighted in opportunities that campaigning gave him to reconnect with places like it.

   2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 5, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part II. The Neoliberal Order, 1970–2020

3. Southern USA nickname for a brother, usually the eldest brother and initially used only by young children before sometimes spreading to become a person's general adult nickname.
4. USoffensivegovernmentA personification of prison rape, especially as a righteous punishment.

   If you put hands on an ICE officer, you should be prosecuted, get sent to jail, and get to spend some quality time with Bubba.

   2025 July 16, John Kennedy, Twitter, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2025

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   Amato is quoted in the order as telling him he was setting himself up “to be Bubba’s new best girlfriend at the state penitentiary.”

   2022 July 9, Sara Jean Green, “King County judge admonished for implying defendant would be raped in prison”, in The Seattle Times, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2022

plural Bubbas

1. USalternativeAlternative form of bubba (a white male Southerner).