[Ads-l] Antedating of "Buppy"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Buppie (OED 1984 [9 Jan.})

1984 Marissa Piesman & Marilee Hartley The Yuppie Handbook 18

BUPPIES (Black Urban Professional) — Usually walk, talk and look exactly like white Yuppies -- except that they don't have to worry about getting a tan.

NOTE: This is presumably the coinage of the term.

Fred Shapiro

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