Meaning of buppie | Babel Free

Definitions

A black urban professional; an African-American professional or executive in their late twenties or early thirties.

US, slang

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.”

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