- brother: sometimes used as a familiar term of address
- close friend
- a man of the Southern U.S., variously characterized as easygoing, companionable, assertively masculine, uneducated, bigoted, violent, etc.
noun
- An example of Bubba is what you might call your best male friend.
- An example of Bubba is what you might call a bigoted, working-class man in the South.
The definition of Bubba is a name used for someone who is a brother, like a brother or a close friend, or slang for a white, uneducated and assertive man from the southern United States.
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bubba
noun
Slang- Chiefly Southern US Brother.
- A white working-class man of the southern United States, stereotypically regarded as uneducated and gregarious with his peers.
Origin of bubba
Alteration of bubTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural bubbas)
- (Southern US, childish) Brother; used as term of familiar address.
- A working-class white male from the southern US (stereotyped as loutish).
Origin
Possibly an alteration of brother or bub, said by a young child not yet able to pronounce brother properly. Compare sissy.
Proper noun
- (Southern US) The stereotypical white male; John Doe.
- German businesses wonder what Otto Normalverbraucher will buy, while US politicians fret over who Bubba vote for in the next US election.
- (Southern US) A generic nickname for any white male.
- Watch it, Bubba!
Noun
(plural Bubbas)
- (US) Alternative form of bubba (a white male Southerner).
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Sentence Examples
- Trish managed a host of other WWE Superstars, including Kurt Angle, Bubba Ray Dudley, Jeff Hardy, Chris Jericho, Test, Val Venis, and Viscera.