HOMEBOY meaning: Close male friend from neighborhood

We found 24 dictionaries that define the word homeboy:

General (22 matching dictionaries)

homeboy: Merriam-Webster
homeboy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
homeboy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
homeboy: Collins English Dictionary
homeboy: Vocabulary.com
Homeboy, homeboy: Wordnik
homeboy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
homeboy: Wiktionary
homeboy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
homeboy: Infoplease Dictionary
homeboy: Dictionary.com
homeboy: Online Etymology Dictionary
homeboy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Homeboy (Eric Church song), Homeboy (disambiguation), Homeboy (film), Homeboy (talk show), Homeboy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
homeboy: Rhymezone
homeboy: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
homeboy: FreeDictionary.org
homeboy: Mnemonic Dictionary
homeboy: TheFreeDictionary.com
homeboy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

homeboy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
homeboy: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (colloquial) Someone, particularly a male acquaintance, from one’s hometown.
▸ noun:  (colloquial, African-American Vernacular) A close friend or fellow member of a youth gang.
▸ noun:  (colloquial) A person.

Opposite:

outsider, stranger, foreigner

Types:

gangster, thug, hoodlum, gangbanger, mafioso, mobster, hood, goon, hoodrat, more...

Phrases:

Homeboy Sandman, Homeboy Industries, more...

Adjectives:

good, old, other, cool, real, southern, white, whassup

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