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bobo

nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈboʊboʊ//

A materialistic person who affects an anti-materialistic persona.

noun

  1. 1

    A materialistic person who affects an anti-materialistic persona.

    The small things—an olive grove or a small chapel—take on greater meaning to a Bobo on vacation.

  2. 2

    A self-styled bodyguard or groupie of the nouveau riche (such as a professional athlete or musician).

  3. 3

    An imitation of something, particularly a well known product, usually lower in quality than the original.

Etymology

Blend of bourgeois + bohemian, popularized by American journalist, commentator and editor David Brooks to describe the 1990s equivalent of the yuppie.

noun

  1. 1

    A boo-boo (a minor injury).

Etymology

Borrowed from French bobo (“boo-boo”).

Forms

plural
bobos
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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).