buppie

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noun

A black urban professional; an African-American professional or executive in their late twenties or early thirties.

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Meanings

nounbuppie (plural buppies)

plural buppies · alternative buppy

  1. USslangA black urban professional; an African-American professional or executive in their late twenties or early thirties.

    In Spike Lee’s story of interracial romance, Jungle Fever (June), Wesley Snipes plays a young buppie New York architect whose affair with his Italian-American secretary (Annabella Sciorra) threatens his marriage and her relationship to her family.

    1991 June, Ella Taylor, “Identity crises”, in The Atlantic

Origin

Blend of black + yuppie or an abbreviation of black urban professional, modelled on yuppie (“young urban professional”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with buppie

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Cite this entry
APA

buppie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/buppie

MLA

“buppie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/buppie. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “buppie,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/buppie.

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