Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
0️⃣ Nothing at all 0️⃣ No result
bupkis

bupkis

4 9.9
A very small amount, especially money or a reward
  • noun
  • /ˈbʌpkɪs/
  • Slang
translation icon : nada
  • When I asked how much he was paid for the project, he replied, "Just bupkis."
  • get bupkis
  • know bupkis

Examples

  • After all that work, I ended up with bupkis to show for my efforts.

  • Nonetheless, theaters make bupkis on tickets.

    Blog text (4)

  • We'll never have the benefits they got, and our kids will get bupkis.

    Blog text (33)

  • I got bupkis with your search, which surprised me.

    Blog text (18)

  • I got bupkis.

    Scoob! (2020)

  • We got bupkis.

    Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997)

  • Rubes, you gotta tell me what happened last night, cos I don't remember bupkis.

    Night of the Living Deb (2015)

  • Such appearances are not worth bupkis, my mother used to insist when I grabbed some toy and said mine or Mike's.

  • Obama has delivered 4 more years of "Benocide Bernokio" Bernanke, trillion dollars in bailouts for banksters, a health-care "reform" bill written to enrich insurance companies and Big Pharma, expanded war in Afghanistan, and bupkis for Main Street.

    Blog text (28)

  • Despite her expectations, the investment yielded bupkis in returns.

Synonyms

bup
vsbupkis
  • Slang
20 9.9

Something that has no value or use

is a stronger slang expression meaning nothing at all

Antonyms

something
∞ 1.0

An unknown object or idea that is not named

abundance
91 3.3

A large amount of something, more than you need

Surface Forms

bupkis singular
bupkises plural

Etymology

Bupkis comes from the Yiddish word bupkes, which meant 'small beans' and was used to mean things of little value. So to say you got bupkis is to say you got 'nothing at all'.