Buppie
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A black urban professional; an African-American professional or executive in their late twenties or early thirties. US, slang
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
Blend of black + yuppie or an abbreviation of black urban professional, modelled on yuppie (“young urban professional”).
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