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Homeboy

/ˈhoʊm.bɔɪ/

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

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noun

1
Someone, particularly a male acquaintance, from one’s hometown.
2
A close friend or fellow member of a youth gang.
3
A person.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Homeboy"

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Word	Definition
homienoun	(African-American Vernacular) Someone, particularly a friend or male acquaintance, from one's hometown.
bronoun	(slang) Brother (a male sibling).
dudenoun	(chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) A man, generally a younger man.
fellanoun	(Australian Aboriginal) Used as a general intensifier; a pfella.
blokenoun	(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.
buddynoun	A friend or casual acquaintance.
friendnoun	A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
mannoun	An adult male human.
boyfriendnoun	A male partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.
pallynoun	(US) An affectionate term of address.
palnoun	(colloquial) A friend, buddy, mate, cobber; someone to hang around with.
matenoun	A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
lucknoun	Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence.
dawgnoun	(US, slang) Term of address for a close, usually male, friend.
chancenoun	(countable) An opportunity or possibility.
mecnoun	(medicine, colloquial) Clipping of meconium. [(medicine) A dark green mass, the contents of the fetal intestines during the later stages of mammalian gestation, that forms the first feces of the newborn.]
budnoun	(usually uncountable, slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.
townmatenoun	A friend with whom one shares a hometown, especially a small one.
friendboynoun	(colloquial) A male friend, as opposed to a boyfriend or lover.
my boynoun	(colloquial) Term of address for a male friend or a young man.