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The homeboy
noun
Someone, particularly a male acquaintance, from one's hometown.
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The Homeboy Bakery caters to restaurants.
The homeboy Sandy Koufax would pitch his latest no-hitter, and Easterners would shake their heads as if to say, "Of course".
The Homeboy Industries building in downtown Los Angeles is a many-roomed rabbit warren: a bakery, a shop, rooms for counselling, rooms for job training, rooms for schooling, rooms for all sorts of things, all contained within the glass walls.
"Yo, the homeboy with the beats!
They call themselves, the Homeboy Graffiti Removal Crew.
Source: Homeboy Industries A former gang member makes sweatshirts to sell in the Homeboy industries shop.
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The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys.
The fans were anticipating the emotional bathos of last year's meeting between the homeboys Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi.
But then she turned the card over, and found an advertisement for the Homeboys, a popular merengue group she likes.
The homeboys I used to hang around with were like, "Hey man, look at that white boy".
Better Call Saul will find the crooked lawyer going under the name James M. McGill, an Irish identity he used before switching to a name more suitable "for the homeboys".
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