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bup·pie (b

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n. Informal

A young Black city or suburban resident with a well-paid professional job and an affluent lifestyle.

[b(lack) + (y)uppie.]

buppie [ˈbʌpɪ]

(Sociology) Informal (sometimes capital) an affluent young Black person

[from B(lack) + (y)uppie]

Translations

buppie, buppy

n (inf) abbr of black upwardly mobile professional → schwarzer Yuppie, schwarze Yuppie

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No references found			WE CAN ALL SAY “I AM BROOKLYN” ¾ FROM HIPSTERS TO HASIDIM ¾ FROM BANKERS TO BLOGGERS — FROM YUPPIES TO BUPPIES. Markowitz Dreams of Atlantic Yards by Tom Acitelli / The New York Observer Both Ellis and Tate were eagerly trumpeting the arrival of this new aesthetic, and they were followed, chiefly, by Nelson George with his 1992 Buppies, B-boys, Baps and Bohos: Notes on Post-Soul Black Culture (the book that coined the term and that features an introduction less eager and more skeptical than Tate's and Ellis's essays). Theorizing the post-soul aesthetic: an introduction by Ashe, Bertram D. / African American Review Marking industry move number 4,080 toward hip hop's watering-down, Brown Sugar asks us to get misty over young buppies in love with both a warm and fuzzy-ly conceived notion of hip hop's "poorer and purer" good old days, and each other. WEB EXCLUSIVE: VIBE Film Pick - Brown Sugar by Vibe Staff / Vibe.com			bunya pine bunya-bunya Bunyan Bunyanesque Bunyaviridae bunyavirus bunyip Bunyon Buonaparte Buonarroti buoy buoy up buoyage buoyance buoyancy buoyancy bags buoyancy chamber buoyancy tank buoyant buoyantly BUPA Buphthalmum Buphthalmum salicifolium bupivacaine buppie buppies buprenorphine buprestid Buprestidan bupropion bur bur cucumber Bur fish bur grass bur marigold bur oak bur reed bur-reed family Bur. Bura buran Buraydah burb Burbage Burbank Burberry Burbidge burble burbling burbly Burbolt			Buphaginae Buphaginae Buphagus Buphagus buphanine Buphonia buphthalmia Buphthalmos Buphthalmos Buphthalmum Buphthalmum salicifolium BUPILJ bupivacaine bupivacaine bupivacaine bupivacaine HCl Bupivacaine hydrochloride Bupivacaine hydrochloride bupivacaine ilioinguinal and iliohypogastric nerve block Bupivicaine Bupivicaine Bupkes Bupleurum Bupleurum falcatum L BUPM BUPMSA BUPNG BUPP buppie buppie buppies Buprenex Buprenex Buprenorphine Buprenorphine Buprénorphine Haut Dosage buprenorphine hydrochloride buprenorphine hydrochloride Buprenorphine Maintenance Treatment buprestid buprestid Buprestid beetle Buprestidae Buprestidae Buprestidan Buprestis Buprestoidea Buprinex Buprinex bupropion bupropion Bupropion HCl Bupropion HCl bupropion hydrochloride bupropion hydrochloride Buproprion Buproprion BUPS BUPT BUQ Buq squashing party

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