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homeboy

[hohm-boi] / ˈhoʊmˌbɔɪ /


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“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

Dave has created, with his Day 1 homeboy, some of the most celebrated music videos of the last decade and earned the bona fides to prove it.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2022

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

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2022

“It literally sounds like you’re watching the game, chillin’ with your homeboy from up the street.”

From Washington Post ● Sep. 18, 2020

It’s mostly dirt now thanks to the cars that people have parked there, like the one Aunt Pooh and her homeboy, Scrap, sit on.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

I played that spot more than the employees, initially rolling solo, then bringing all the homeboys.

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2023

“I just remember me and my homeboys getting in the car and going to down to Canal Street,” Mathieu said.

From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2022

“Me and my homeboys were joking in the running back room the other day, if you didn’t know the play, you could just run a swing last year,” Barlow said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2022

When white hot-rodders were jacking up their cars to go fast, homeboys were dropping their rides low, and slowing things down — a quintessentially countercultural move if ever there was one.

From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2020

But once in a while he'd go over and visit some of his old homeboys who were home for Thanksgiving break or Christmas vacation.

From "Miracle's Boys" by Jacqueline Woodson




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