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- noun Plural form of
buppie .
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Examples
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Crack culture made the inner city a perfect setting for crime dramas, while there was a general acknowledgment that black yuppies aka buppies were a market worth tapping.
Nelson George: Black Hollywood: 1991 vs. 2011 Nelson George 2011
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Crack culture made the inner city a perfect setting for crime dramas, while there was a general acknowledgment that black yuppies aka buppies were a market worth tapping.
Nelson George: Black Hollywood: 1991 vs. 2011 Nelson George 2011
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Crack culture made the inner city a perfect setting for crime dramas, while there was a general acknowledgment that black yuppies aka buppies were a market worth tapping.
Nelson George: Black Hollywood: 1991 vs. 2011 Nelson George 2011
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Crack culture made the inner city a perfect setting for crime dramas, while there was a general acknowledgment that black yuppies aka buppies were a market worth tapping.
Nelson George: Black Hollywood: 1991 vs. 2011 Nelson George 2011
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And what some pollsters call buppies: the fast growing African-American middle class who Republicans hope will vote the same way many white yuppies do.
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As it's used properly, it doesn't make the babies screech in rage and throw the "buppies" back at Mum.
PCLinuxOS-Forums 2008
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Launched in 2007, Beyond Demographics has done extensive research into the black population, segmenting the group into 12 psychographic divisions with names like “buppies,” “nomads” and “activists.”
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The buppies just magically started disappearing everytime one fell on the floor (into the magic trashcan) at around 2 1/2.
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The buppies just magically started disappearing everytime one fell on the floor into the magic trashcan at around 2 1/2.
Deliverance 2007
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The new phenomenon of the last 15 years is the rise of the "buppies."
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