homo

noun
/ˈhəʊ.məʊ/UK/ˈhoʊ.moʊ/US

Etymology

From Latin homō (“man, human”), sometimes as a shortening of Homo sapiens. Doublet of gome, hombre, ombre, and omi.

  1. derived from homō

Definitions

  1. Clipping of homosexual.

    • I heard that he's a homo, but he hasn't come out of the closet yet.
    • "... He's a homo." "My dear Theo, at my age one can't worry about little details like that. Besides, he's got such a nice voice."
  2. Of or pertaining to homosexuality.

  3. Homogenized milk with a high butterfat content.

    • One quart of homo wholesale in glass equals one quart equivalent. Certain modifications were made in these relatives to adjust for variations in units per ...
  4. + 3 more definitions
    1. Homogenized

      Homogenized; almost always said of milk with a high butterfat content.

      • Regular homo milk was being sold out of stores in half gallons for 33 cents against 44 cents on regular homo milk on home delivery.
    2. A human.

      • John, John, if you don't go you're no homo—no! You're only a fowl, an owl, a cow, a sow,—a doll, a poll; a poor, old, good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a Concord bog.
    3. Acronym of highest occupied molecular orbital.

      • To be consistent with the terminology for solids, for molecules, we also call the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) the VBM and CBM, respectively.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at homo. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01homo02homosexual03sex04sexuality05sexual06sexed07libido08mental09individual10human

A definitional loop anchored at homo. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at homo

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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