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it means "nothing". zip, zilch, zero.
me: "i've got a pair of aces, what do you have?"
you: "i've got bupkiss (nothing, or a 5 of clubs and a deuce of diamonds, etc.)"
bupkiss by ert August 23, 2004
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Yiddish for "beans", or figuratively "nothing, nada, zilch". Can also be an offer so low as to be an insult, and as Leo Rosten noted in his classic "The Joy of Yiddish," "bupkes" is a howl of outrage often heard in the cutthroat world of show business.
"I should have got at least ten bucks but i got BUPKES!!"
bupkes by hollypop June 21, 2003
I put a lot of hard work into this project, and all I got was bupkis.
bupkis by tradesman May 7, 2003
Literally, in Yiddish it means "beans". However, beans was a term used to describe goat droppings, as goat shit looks like beans.

So bupkis or bupkes is a common slang for, 'of no value". That is what the slang means. The reason for that is above. It does not literally mean "goat shit". It means "beans".
I worked my ass off on this project and got exactly bupkis for my troubles.
bupkis by linguistication January 1, 2016

Dick Butkus 

The greatest defensive player in NFL history. Butkus played linebacker for the Chicago Bears and won the Heisman trophy when he was in college. Probably his greatest accomplishment came when he was voted the greatest defensive player of the 20th century.
Dick Butkus favorite hobby..............
HITTING!!!!!!
bunkus, noun, adjective,
naught, bunkum, bogus, false, nonsensical, without logic or reason

from modern English, bunkum, bogus
...his words amounted to bunkus
...he reasoned with bunkus logic
bunkus by Kerry Wallace March 30, 2006