homeboy
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noun Slang.
1.
a person from the same locality as oneself.
2.
a close friend or fellow gang member.
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homeboy (ˈhəʊmˌbɔɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a close friend |
| 2. | a person from one's home town or neighbourhood |
| [C20: US rap-music usage] | |
| 'homegirl | |
| —fem n | |
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Homeboy
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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Word Origin & History
homeboy
"person from one's hometown," 1940s, Amer.Eng., black slang, also originally with overtones of "simpleton." With many variants (cf. homebuddy, homeslice, both 1980s, with meaning shading toward "good friend"). The word had been used by Ruskin (1886) with the sense "stay-at-home male," and it was Canadian
slang for "boy brought up in an orphanage or other institution" (1913). Short form homie attested by 1970s; in New Zealand slang this meant "English or British immigrant" (1927).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
He goes against the grain to get even with that homeboy who slighted him.
It does happen with some frequency that a gang member will testify against his fellow homeboy.
Anybody who didn't know better would have thought homeboy was on the mend.
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