buppie

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A black urban professional; an African-American professional or executive in their late twenties or early thirties. US,slang
    — 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.

词形变化

buppies plural buppy alternative

词源

Blend of black + yuppie or an abbreviation of black urban professional, modelled on yuppie (“young urban professional”).
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