How to Use homeboy in a Sentence

homeboy

noun
Definition of homeboynext
  • He was hanging out with his homeboys.
  • He dedicated his win to his homeboys back home.
  • The 100-year-old Los Angeles homeboy, all the way to the majors.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Here's hoping none of those homeboys wear combat boots to the VMAs.
    — Andrea Park, Glamour, 17 Aug. 2018
  • Little bit of @michaelmuller7, little bit of @gilmoregirls homeboy love!
    — Paulina Jayne Isaac, Glamour, 7 Apr. 2021
  • My first pair of cleats are in there, some of my homeboys who passed away, stuff that reminds me of them, some stuff from my grandma’s house that reminds me of her.
    — Austin Ward, ajc, 22 Nov. 2017
  • Our dad was an original Little Tokyo homeboy when L.A. was still a small town.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
  • If Holly Hylton had hollered at those two homeboys in Starbucks, she surely wouldn’t have called the cops.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 17 May 2018
  • If 50 Cent doesn’t marry you…I’ll introduce you to my homeboy.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 9 July 2018
  • How does Harlow’s homeboy who just beat cancer have anything to do with how his girl don’t need no enhancers?
    — Vulture, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The other two matches featured homeboy Murray, who has won it twice (plus the Olympics) and Roger, who has won it seven times and been to 10 finals.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 19 July 2017
  • According to the Navy Times, homeboy never served in Vietnam.
    — Anne Branigin, The Root, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Dirtybird homeboy Justin Jay will take live electronic to a new level.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2017
  • And, like, no matter their history, homeboy did hop countries for her.
    — Mariah Smith, The Cut, 6 June 2018
  • After your uncle has had a few glasses of Wild Turkey at Thanksgiving, or your homeboy has had a few too many shots of ... ummm ...
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 9 Oct. 2017
  • That’s a sentence fans of The Hills will never forget, and now, that combat boot-wearing homeboy is about to return to reality TV.
    — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 25 June 2019
  • West allows for his homeboy Sanders’ moderate racial positions in the name of politics, but not Obama’s.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Seriously, homeboy—as Bella Hadid would call him—is pressed.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Gamma hydroxybutyrate—commonly called G, liquid ecstasy, Georgia homeboy, or cherry meth—is to rave parties of the new millennium what cocaine was to Wall Street in the 1980s.
    — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2012
  • Her hobbies included being an avid reader, a die hard Cleveland Indians fan, watching college basketball ( her homeboy Lebron) and a passion for cooking.
    — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • McCarthy hired his homeboy, Nolan, to implement a complicated scheme that required a significant personnel change during a pandemic.
    — Dallas News, 22 Oct. 2020
  • An actor, comedian and former college football player from Atlanta, Banks has built a big following on social media with funny videos about little daily dramas, from being flush with stimulus money to being pursued by his homeboy’s girl.
    — Jim Kiest and Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Apr. 2021

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