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Definition of Buppie
1. Noun. (US slang) short for "black urban professional", a African American subset of the yuppie category. The group includes black professionals and executives in their late twenties and early thirties. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Buppie
1. a black professional person working in a city [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buppie
Literary usage of Buppie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Urban Condition: space, community, and self in the contemporary metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"Narratively, the ubiquitousness of crime generates a community where nothing is
what it seems: a young “buppie” [156[ — that is, an impeccably dressed black ..."
2. Statutes at Large of the State of New York: Comprising the Revised Statutes by New York (State)., John Worth Edmonds (1882)
"Any society, association, or incorporation now incorpo- buppie- rated, or that
may hereafter be incorporated under and by virtue of S^aST** chapter three ..."
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