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buppies

buppies is the plural of buppie.

buppies is the plural of buppy.

Meaning of buppie

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

Questions about buppies

What is buppies the plural of?
Buppies is the plural of buppie.

Words near buppies in the dictionary

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

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