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Buppy

or Bup·pie

[ buhp-ee ]

noun

, plural Bup·pies.
  1. a young, upwardly mobile Black professional.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Buppy1

An Americanism first recorded in 1980–85; B(lack) u(rban) p(rofessional), on the model of yuppie

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