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Definition of Homeboy
1. Noun. A fellow male member of a youth gang.
2. Noun. A male friend from your neighborhood or hometown.
Definition of Homeboy
1. Noun. (colloquial) Someone, particularly a male acquaintance, from one’s hometown. ¹
2. Noun. (colloquial) A close friend or fellow member of a youth gang. ¹
3. Noun. (colloquial) A person. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Homeboy
1. a boy or man from one's neighborhood [n -BOYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homeboy
Literary usage of Homeboy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Misalliance: The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. With a by Bernard Shaw (1914)
"The Schoolboy and the homeboy • In practice what happens is that parents notice
that boys brought up at home become mollycoddles, or prigs, or duffers, ..."
2. No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons by Joanne Mariner (2001)
"He told his homeboy about what was going on and he's homeboy said he was going
to protect me also but I had to pay August 1, when the officer open the door ..."
3. Sweet Battlefields: Youth and the Liberian Civil War by Mats Utas (2003)
"The notion of a cosmopolitan mode (Ferguson 1999)" and homeboy ... The Liberian
Civil War was influenced by homeboy cosmopolitanism as a movement of ..."
4. Treatment Services for Adolescent Substance Abusers by Alfred S. Friedman (1998)
"The overriding feature of the Latino homeboy units was an attachment to the local
... The role sometimes involved fights, usually with other homeboy groups, ..."
5. Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males: Closing the Achievement Gapby Alfred W. Tatum by Alfred W. Tatum (2005)
"... the way I'm living I feel dead anyway Tired of being on my knees begging Trying
to do the right thing and never getting ahead My homeboy graduated from ..."
6. The Democratisation Process in Zanzibar: A Retarded Transition by Mohammed Ali Bakari (2001)
"... not because he was a homeboy to the area, but largely because of his highly
articulate speech and convincing campaign issues that resonated among among ..."
7. Waiter, There's a Horse in My Wine: A Treasury of Entertainment, Exploration by Jennifer "Chotzi" Rosen (2005)
"In the center of Mainz, ground zero of the German wine route, stands a statue of
homeboy Johannes Gutenberg, the first person to look at a wine press, ..."
8. From Conflict to Negotiation: Nature-Based Development on South Africa's by Robin Palmer, Hermann Timmermans, Derick Fay (2002)
"... ('homeboy') networks depicted by Mayer [1971] have declined, contacts from
home are still valuable resources from migrants arriving in town. ..."
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