| 释义 |
buppie; buppy; bumpie
noun
a (young) black urban professional; a (young) black upwardly mobile professional US, 1986
A socio-economic acronym on the model of YUPPIE— American Speech, Summer 1989 — Nelson George, Buppies, B-Boys, Baps, & Bohos, 1992 [Brixton] now contained a multi-complex cinema, a string of upwardly-mobile buppie shops, and the largest Caribbean-style market for a thousand miles in any direction. — Donald Gorgon, Cop Killer, pp. 29–30, 1994 Fort Green [in New York], an area Kenyatta dismisses as “full of buppies and bohemian shit”[.] — Patrick Neate, Where You’re At, p. 34, 2003 |