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homeboy

[hohm-boi] / ˈhoʊmˌbɔɪ /


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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

“Looks like homeboy is doing a little too good,” Tolbert said.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2021

Turns out not using the number is harder than Jus anticipates, especially when he’s alone with nothing but memories of his homeboy.

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone

My homeboys would wear they sisters’ shirts and they sisters’ jeans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025

But Black Twitter, combined with the people I followed from the bar, my homeboys from around the way I convinced to join, and Eastside-Westside Baltimore Twitta, made my experience complete.

From Salon ● May 6, 2022

“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

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

They were all his homeboys, you know, the kids he hung out with just a couple of years ago.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor


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