buppie en · NOUN
Etymology
Blend of black + yuppie or an abbreviation of black urban professional, modelled on yuppie (“young urban professional”).
Meanings
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(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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| buppy | alternative | lexicographic | |
| buppies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |