bubbas

Noun

bubba (plural bubbas)

1. (Southern US, childish) Brother; 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.
   • 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

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