English

Proper noun

Bubba

1. (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.

2. (Southern US) A generic nickname for any white male.

   Watch it, Bubba!

3. (Southern US) 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.

Noun

Bubba ‎(plural Bubbas)

1. (US) Alternative form of bubba (a white male Southerner).

English

Noun

bubba ‎(plural bubbas)

1. (Southern US, childish) Brother; used as term of familiar address.
   • 2007, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Low Red Moon‎, page 27:

     "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.

2. A working-class white male from the southern US (stereotyped as loutish).
   • 2009 February 13, Ginia Bellafante, “A Pitcher’s Life After the Third Strike”, in New York Times:

     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.

   • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, page 120:

     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.

See also

• brother, brotha
• bro