homeboy

Example Sentences

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If a friend put me in a situation that nearly destroyed my career, I’d stay as far away from homeboy as possible.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2024

“I remembered my homeboy that lived in the neighborhood. I had to go through some woods to his house with the album,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 7, 2023

"Where your homeboy work, the one that gets $190k a year?"

From Salon • Sep. 16, 2022

Indeed, over the years, the Israeli-American chef Alon Shaya has earned New Orleans homeboy status while slinging labneh and high-end hummus in the land of jambalaya and crawfish étouffée.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2022

And to top it all off, he was trying hard to be sympathetic to me, his pretty normal, now really sad homeboy.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds