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hb

hb is the initialism of homeboy.

hb is the alternative letter-case form of HB.

Meaning of homeboy

Noun

homeboy (plural homeboys)

  1. (colloquial) 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 baby2004, “Homeboy”, performed by JoJo
  2. (colloquial, African-American Vernacular) A close friend or fellow member of a youth gang.
  3. (colloquial) A person.

See all 4 meanings of homeboy

Adjective capitalized: HB

HB (not comparable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of hard black (describing a pencil that makes lighter marks than a grade B, but darker marks than a grade H pencil).
    • Suresh [...] takes his HB pencil and ruler out of their metal tin.2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 15

Noun capitalized: HB

HB (plural HBs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of horizontal branch.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism, slang) Initialism of hot babe, someone pickup artists try to seduce. (Usually followed by a number in the 1-10 scale of physical beauty, e.g. HB10.)
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of home birth.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism, often) Initialism of house bill (“a bill proposed in or passed by a legislative house”) (Compare SB.)
    • HB2
    • Utah has allowed for permitless open and concealed carry of weapons since 2021. But before the passage of HB 128, firearms had to be concealed when carried on college campuses.2025 September 14, Abené Clayton, “Utah campus open carry law under fresh scrutiny after Charlie Kirk shooting”, in The Guardian
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of halfback.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of horizontal bar.
  7. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of high bar.
  8. (abbreviation, clipping) Clipping of HB pencil.
  9. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of host broadcaster.

Phrase capitalized: HB

HB

  1. (Internet, abbreviation) Abbreviation of happy birthday.

Verb capitalized: HB

HB (third-person singular simple present HBs, present participle HBing, simple past and past participle HBed or HB'd)

  1. (Internet, abbreviation, initialism, transitive) Initialism of hard-block.
    • i have a handful of moots that if they sb'd or hb'd me id genuinely be upset this app has ruined me huh2021 September 1, Jekyll (@rottingca9s), Twitter

Proper noun capitalized: HB

HB

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Hansestadt Bremen, the German city of Bremen; used on licence plates and informally in other contexts.
    • Let's meet in HB tomorrow.

Forms of hb

Noun
pluralhbs
pluralHBs
Verb
third-person singular presenthbs
present participlehbing
past participlehbed
pasthbed
third-person singular presentHBs
present participleHBing
past participleHBed
pastHBed
past participleHB'd
pastHB'd

Phrases with hb

Questions about hb

What is hb the initialism of?
Hb is the initialism of homeboy.
What part of speech is hb?
Hb can be an adjective, a noun, a phrase or a verb.

Words near hb in the dictionary

  1. haċek
  2. haċeks
  3. haček
  4. hačeks
  5. hačky
  6. hb
  7. HB pencil
  8. HB pencils
  9. HB'd
  10. Hb.
  11. HB2

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hb (page history and authors); HB (page history and authors); homeboy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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