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buppie

buppie noun: a black urban professional; an African-American professional or executive in their late twenties or early thirties.

Noun

buppie (plural buppies)

  1. (US, slang) A 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

buppie meaning in Bengali

buppie in Bengali

একজন কালো শহুরে পেশাজীবী

Forms of buppie

pluralbuppies
alternative formbuppy

Origin of buppie

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

Words that rhyme with buppie

Questions about buppie

What does buppie mean?
Buppie means a black urban professional; an African-American professional or executive in their late twenties or early thirties.
What is buppie in Bengali?
Buppie in Bengali is একজন কালো শহুরে পেশাজীবী. See Buppie meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is buppie?
Buppie is a noun.
What is the plural of buppie?
The plural of buppie is buppies.

Words near buppie in the dictionary

  1. bupleurynol
  2. bupleurynols
  3. buplever
  4. buplevers
  5. Bupp
  6. buppie
  7. buppies
  8. Bupps
  9. buppy
  10. bupranolol
  11. bupremorphine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buppie (page history and authors); buppie (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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