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

I had a homeboy whose cousin lived out in Riverside, and he told us about Metro.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2022

"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

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