what color is your bugatti
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.81 in modern English
36
Scrabble Score
22
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
phrase
An expression intended to flaunt one’s own material possessions and simultaneously deride another person for not owning them.
Humorous; Slang
Example Sentences
- "Many secondary school teachers feel they were slow to pick up on Tate’s influence. Last year, they began to notice pupils using phrases they didn’t recognise: “What colour is your Bugatti?” (a way of bragging about status); “Make me a sandwich” (to belittle women and girls)."
- "Here’s a more innocuous example: If students are making repeated references to Bugatti, the luxury sports car, they might be watching Andrew Tate videos. The influencer’s infamous retort, “What color is your Bugatti?,” has been popularized as a way of bragging about one’s possessions."
- "At a school in Belfast, Northern Ireland, a line popularized by Mr. Tate to deride people who do not own luxury cars — “What color is your Bugatti?” — became widespread, said Charlotte Carson, a history and civics teacher."
Etymology
Coined by Andrew Tate in March 2022 during a video with YouTuber Mike Thurston, and was popularized not long after. In the video, Tate flaunts his newest Bugatti Chiron to Thurston, and explains to him how he handles the people who say they dislike its color: he deridingly asks them, what color is your Bugatti? knowing that the vast majority of them are unlikely to own one.