What does bubba mean?
Bubba means (Southern US, childish) Brother; used as term of familiar address..
Bubba
/ˈbʌbə/ · noun
Meaning
(Southern US, childish) Brother; used as term of familiar address..
Definitions by Sense
- (Southern US, childish) Brother; used as term of familiar address.
- A working-class white male from the southern US, stereotyped as loutish.
Example Sentences
"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.
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.
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Word Forms
- bubbas
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How do you use bubba in a sentence?
"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.
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