Definition of "buppie" [buppie]

• Informal A young Black city or suburban resident with a well-paid professional job and an affluent lifestyle. (noun)

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• "Harmond and Mame are a classic Clintonian "buppie" Black urban professional couple."
• "This is truly a world away from Nottage's last play to have a British production - the wickedly bold 'buppie' satire Fabulation, which, she delightedly confesses, so discomfited white audiences in the US that at first they had to plant black people in the audience to show them it was OK to laugh."
• "By contrast, I could never endorse a candidate who held such views were he running in the 35th Councilmanic (which includes the buppie communities of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Prospect Heights)"