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buppy

buppy is the alternative form of buppie.

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

Forms of buppy

pluralbuppies

Questions about buppy

What is buppy the alternative form of?
Buppy is the alternative form of buppie.

Words near buppy in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buppy (page history and authors); buppie (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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