homeboy

Example Sentences

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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

“Don’t accuse me of killing my homeboy, dude,” Cooley snapped at one of them.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2021

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

From Washington Post • Sep. 18, 2020

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