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Bubba

proper nounnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈbʌbə//

The stereotypical white male; John Doe.

proper noun

  1. 1

    The stereotypical white male; John Doe.

    German businesses wonder what Otto Normalverbraucher will buy, while US politicians fret over who Bubba will vote for in the next US election.

  2. 2

    A generic nickname for any white male.

    Watch it, Bubba!

    [Bill] Clinton knew and maintained a lifelong affection for the small-town Arkansans world in which he had been reared—he relished being called Bubba—and delighted in opportunities that campaigning gave him to reconnect with places like it.

  3. 3

    A nickname for a brother, usually the eldest brother and initially used only by young children before sometimes spreading to become a person's general adult nickname.

  4. 4

    A personification of prison rape, especially as a righteous punishment.

    Amato is quoted in the order as telling him he was setting himself up “to be Bubba’s new best girlfriend at the state penitentiary.”

    If you put hands on an ICE officer, you should be prosecuted, get sent to jail, and get to spend some quality time with Bubba.

Etymology

Capitalization of bubba.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of bubbaAlternative form of bubba (a white male Southerner).

Forms

plural
Bubbas
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).