(US, slang) A black urban professional; an African-American professional or executive in their late twenties or early thirties.
(US, slang) A black urban professional; an African-American professional or executive in their late twenties or early thirties.
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 h…
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(intransitive, originally, AAVE, chiefly, US, slang) To start a romantic relationship with someone.