adjective🔥 Gen-Z slang

boujee

fancy and high-class

What it means

Describes a fancy, high-class, or luxury-loving lifestyle and the people who flaunt it. It can be a genuine compliment about elevated taste or a playful jab at someone acting more upscale than they are.

Examples

  • She only drinks oat milk lattes now, so boujee.
  • We went to a boujee rooftop bar for her birthday.
  • I'm feeling boujee tonight, let's get the good wine.
  • His new apartment is way too boujee for our budget.

Where it comes from

A relaxed respelling of 'bourgeois,' rooted in AAVE. It went viral with Migos' 2016 hit 'Bad and Boujee,' cementing it in mainstream slang.

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