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homeboy

/ˈhoʊm.bɔɪ/

homeboy noun: someone, particularly a male acquaintance, from one’s hometown.

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.

Pronoun

homeboy (third-person singular, masculine, nominative or objective case)

  1. (masculine, nominative, objective, singular, slang, third-person) He or him.
    • (1:38) If homeboy’s coming through with these, it’s quiet. Yeah no, it’s quiet for him. But, like, if he comes through with, y’know, these; you got some air maxes out here, you got some Jordans. Homeboy’s gonna, like, get it.2017 October 2, Complex (@Complex), YouTube
    • Homeboy rafikied a peacock with a squeegee.2023 February 1, Fiona’s Videos 🎬 (@fiona_videos), Twitter

homeboy meaning in Tamil

homeboy in Tamil

விடலை

Forms of homeboy

pluralhomeboys

Origin of homeboy

20th-century African-American urban slang. Originated from travelers to metropolitan areas derived from American English as a blend of hometown + boy. However, modern use is mostly by African-Americans and Latinos in the United States.

Questions about homeboy

What does homeboy mean?
Homeboy means someone, particularly a male acquaintance, from one’s hometown.
What is homeboy in Tamil?
Homeboy in Tamil is விடலை. See Homeboy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is homeboy?
Homeboy can be a noun or a pronoun.
How do you pronounce homeboy?
Homeboy is pronounced /ˈhoʊm.bɔɪ/ (US).
What is the plural of homeboy?
The plural of homeboy is homeboys.

Words near homeboy in the dictionary

  1. homeboi
  2. homebois
  3. homeboiz
  4. homeborn
  5. homebound
  6. homeboy
  7. homeboys
  8. homebreaker
  9. homebreakers
  10. homebreaking
  11. homebred

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: homeboy (page history and authors); homeboy (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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