Meaning

4 senses
  1. A materialistic person who affects an anti-materialistic persona.

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

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

  4. (Louisiana, Montreal)A boo-boo (a minor injury).

Origin

Blend of bourgeois + bohemian, popularized by American journalist, commentator and editor

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

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

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Forms

plural: bobos
Singularbobo
Pluralbobos

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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