buppie informal , also: Buppie

He was a good man, although way too self-centered and, truthfully, a little bit of a buppie at times.

But even a buppie like Jordan isn't convincing any rednecks to let a black move next door.

A buppie is a black urban professional.

This has produced many urban and suburban communities with black majorities populations or significant middle class black or "buppie" neighborhoods.

And one day you cut your hair, shave your beard, put away your sandals, go from yippie to yuppie, nationalist to buppie.

Sassy and charismatic, as was Melissa DeSouza, as the spoiled buppie who played her ma like a 12-inch.

They go to the Shark Bar and other Buppie haunts like Lola's and Carib.

E. Lynn Harris, another best-selling black novelist, took the standard buppie urban romance and threw into that mix bisexuals and men on the down-low.

Imagine "The Cosby Show," without the buppie earnestness, and "The Sopranos," without the body count.

If you're a buppie, a black yuppie, you're not concerned about busing, you're not concerned about public accommodations - except as intellectual issues.

After being passed over for a supporting role in the buppie romantic comedy "Brown Sugar," Mr. Elba landed his part on "The Wire."

Betty (Iris Little-Thomas), Erin's beautiful mother, is a proud buppie, a mid-level executive in a real estate firm who fiercely lectures her daughter about career and self-reliance.

"Once you get past the 200,000-a-year mark you are constantly being appraised and as a result always trying to prove your worth," the buppie heroine complains in her infectiously intimate you-go!

Buppie is the vaguely derogatory acronym of Black Upwardly Mobile People, and, he says, there's no bigger Buppie status symbol than a flashy car.

But knowing your way around a camshaft doesn't count for much in the buppie environment of Alvin's school, where being a star on the basketball team is the one sure way to attract female attention.

Nodding gracefully to Woody Allen and Spike Lee, Christopher Scott Cherot makes a promising feature film debut with a sharply witty, lighter-than-air satire of buppie mating rituals.

Cooke creates a gallery of characters, each illustrating a different faction within the black community, from the middle-aged policeman Benjamin to the buppie lawyer Dexter or the Black Panther wannabe Toby.

When her self-named sitcom began in 1988, it was the white trash yang to Bill Cosby's buppie yin: a radical reinvention of the television family, inflected with Roseanne's salty and singular blue-collar feminism.

The landlord said she didn't mind, but the neighbors. . . . Then one day, I was late for the Metroliner, heading for Harvard and a weekend with several yuppie, buppie and guppie friends.

As he contemplated "The Talented Tenth," Mr. Wesley's first inclination was to take the character of Essex Braxton from "The Mighty Gents" and insert him into a buppie dinner party.

With his self-deflating cool and amused insight into the shallowness of the buppie world in which he drifts, Lee is one of the most original and likable characters to pop up in a movie in quite a while.

What with Grandpa's stroke, Maurice's shoplifting, Uncle Frank's drinking problem, the appearance of buppie Uncle Charlie in his Bermuda shorts and the consumption of uncooked hot dogs, there seems to be scant cause for this group's levity.

When her real estate broker husband announces that he's leaving, Ina must figure out how to reconstruct a life that has come to revolve around car pools and the P.T.A. Initially, it's hard to empathize with her Buppie ennui.