Pronunciations
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/ˈbʌbə/
Noun
Brother; used as term of familiar address.
Usage- Southern-US
- childish
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"Hey, bubba, is that really you? Goddamn. I haven't heard from you in a coon's age." / "Don't 'hey, bubba' me, you sonofabitch.
A working-class white male from the southern US, stereotyped as loutish.
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Will Ferrell and his creative partner, the writer and director Adam McKay, are, let’s face it, our national poets on the subject of dimwitted, bubba arrogance and the redemptive powers of failure, their poems seemingly conceived in a midnight frenzy of brilliance on the back of a bag of Doritos.
Their subjects were not bubbas from the bayous but affluent students at the University of Michigan who had lived in the South for at least six years.