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  • noun Plural form of buppie.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2004 2004

  • As it's used properly, it doesn't make the babies screech in rage and throw the "buppies" back at Mum.

    PCLinuxOS-Forums 2008

  • 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.”

    Harlem Marketers Look Closer « 2009

  • The buppies just magically started disappearing everytime one fell on the floor (into the magic trashcan) at around 2 1/2.

    Deliverance | Her Bad Mother 2007

  • The buppies just magically started disappearing everytime one fell on the floor into the magic trashcan at around 2 1/2.

    Deliverance 2007

  • The new phenomenon of the last 15 years is the rise of the "buppies."

    South African Succession 2007

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