homeboy
pronunciation
How to pronounce homeboy in British English:
UK [ˈhəʊmbɔɪ]
How to pronounce homeboy in American English:
US [ˈhoʊmbɔɪ]
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- Noun:
- a fellow male member of a youth gang
- a male friend from your neighborhood or hometown
Word Origin
- homeboy (n.)
- "person from one's hometown," 1940s, American English, black slang, also originally with overtones of "simpleton." With many variants (compare homebuddy, homeslice, both 1980s, with meaning shading toward "good friend"). The word had been used by Ruskin (1886) with the sense "stay-at-home male," and it was Canadian slang for "boy brought up in an orphanage or other institution" (1913).
Example
- 1. Homeboy industries also employs over 300 of them .
- 2. Andre now sells sweatshirts , mugs and other mementos in the homeboy industries shop , and speaks clear and even eloquent standard english .
- 3. Tattoo removal is just one of the services offered by homeboy industries , a haven for former gang members who want to turn their lives around-roughly 12000 of them a year , mostly male .
- 4. These connections included father greg boyle of homeboy industries , an l.a. - based organization that provides services to high-risk , formerly gang-involved men and women .
- 5. But damon weaver , a cub reporter at the grand age of 11 , did manage to pull off the kind of coup that gordon brown and david cameron can only dream of by getting the most powerful man on earth to agree to be his homeboy .