homeboy
/ˈhəʊmbɔɪ
/(or homegirl)
noun US & South African informal
1An acquaintance from one’s own town or neighbourhood, or from the same social background.Well, he's a homeboy, a neighbor, from San Rafael....
- I remember a conversation with a homeboy who lost a brother in the wars.
- Imagine the greatest high school basketball player of all time, practically a homeboy, playing in front of customers he created in two years of quasi-professional basketball at the high school level.
1.1(Especially among urban black people) a member of one’s peer group or gang.I first started talking with my homeboys about a ceasefire in the gang wars in 1989....
- I guess to their fellow homeboys this is hilarious and considered de rigueur, but to the rest of the world they seem clownish.
- He had been rumoured to have said that he missed his homeboys and the old times.