Sentence examples for homeys from inspiring English sources

Who would have thought, for example, that the average Romany traveller of the 1930s liked hanging out with his "homeys" (ie, men) or habitually referred to children as "chavvys"?

At Toy Tokyo there is a glass counter with shelves of small figures in bright colors.To the left of the counter are aisles of toys, and to the right is the collector's room, full of vintage toys and twelve-inch dolls — superheroes and soldiers and limited editions of rappers and homeys made just for Toy Tokyo.

Three strong pithecan homeys are dispatched to find and grab off a fresh ember or burning branch from their nearest heat-keeping neighbors, hundreds or perhaps thousands of miles away, who will mash them with a boulder or have them for lunch if they fail.

His opening line was something to the effect of "Whazzup, homeys?" But later, when the avatars both showed up early to a group raid, they made small talk.

Perhaps he is evoking Malcolm X (although Malcolm X was famously tall), who described in his autobiography the sky-blue zoot suit he wore on the streets of Harlem in his hustler days with his "homey" Shorty; Frank also thinks frequently of the "homeys" who went to war with him but did not return home.

It did occur to me sometimes that I was not a twenty-two-year-old black man walking around South Central L.A., not a gangsta with my gat in my pocket and only my homeys to watch my back, but a comfortable thirty-five-year-old white man on his way to his office in midtown Manhattan.

"Snoop Dogg's Father Hood" is what the E! channel calls his showcase at-home-with-homeys reality series, an uneasy mix of offspring and entourage.

The competitors and spectators are Latino, like many of Red Hook's residents; the food vendors sell the sort of homey backyard barbecue fare that restaurants either avoid or do badly.They hail from Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Mexico.

In eastern (ie, ex-East) Germany, The Left trades on Ostalgie (ie, nostalgia for the old East) and a certain homey we-know-how-you-feel appeal to all those Ossis who still don't quite feel at ease in the new Germany.The Left's supporters in the east tend to be elderly (and thus decreasing over time).

Corporations try to match this mood by boasting about the provenance of their products and launching homey new brands.

Also thrilling is a selection of homey relics perfume bottles, drinking bowls, a dog collar that prompt shivers of recognition.