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homeboy

noun
/ˈhoʊm.bɔɪ/US

Etymology

20th-century African-American urban slang. Originated from travelers to metropolitan areas derived from American English as a blend of hometown + boy. However, modern use is mostly by African-Americans and Latinos in the United States.

  1. derived from *bʰā-✻
  2. derived from *bō-✻ — “brother, close male relation”
  3. inherited from *bōjô✻ — “younger brother, young male relation”
  4. inherited from *bōjō✻
  5. inherited from *bōia✻ — “boy”
  6. inherited from boy//boye — “servant, commoner, knave, boy”
  7. compounded as homeboy — “hometown + boy”

Definitions

  1. Someone, particularly a male acquaintance, from one’s hometown.

    • When the boy next door; Don't want to be my homeboy no more; Saw something that I never saw before; I think he wants to be my baby

  2. A close friend or fellow member of a youth gang.

  3. A person.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. He or him.

      • (1:38) If homeboy’s coming through with these, it’s quiet. Yeah no, it’s quiet for him. But, like, if he comes through with, y’know, these; you got some air maxes out here, you got some Jordans. Homeboy’s gonna, like, get it.
      • Homeboy rafikied a peacock with a squeegee.
      • He's talking about the jumpscare warnings in Dead Space. The ones you can turn off. Homeboy takes gaming way too fucking seriously.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for homeboy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA