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home boy
Also home-boy.
[f. home n. + boy n.]
a. A boy who is fond of staying at home.
b. Canad. A boy who has been brought up in an orphanage or institution. (See home n.1 A 8.)
c. U.S. (See quot. 1970.)
1886Ruskin Præterita I. xi. 371 Both despised me, as a home-boy, to begin with. 1913S. A. Francis Canadian Home Boy iii, The Canadian reader will need no explanation of the title ‘Home Boy’, but to the British reader this term will convey little meaning... It denotes a boy who has been brought up in some charitable ‘Home’, and from whom little that is good is expected. 1932N. M. Jamieson Cattle in Stall 192 [A] lonesome little English home boy [was] playing his mouth organ softly in the dusk. 1967Amer. Speech XLII. 238 Home boy is a slang expression particularly in vogue among students at Southern Negro colleges... Home boy and similar forms, such as home girl and home people, denote individuals who come from the same hometown as the speaker. 1970C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 66 Homeboy, person from one's home town.
Senses a, b, c in Dict. become 1, 2, 3. [3.] For def. read: slang (chiefly Black English). a. orig. U.S. and S. Afr. [In S. Afr. Eng., tr. Xhosa umkhaya person from home, family, f. khaya home.] A person from one's home town, region, or neighbourhood; hence, a male friend or associate, esp. one who has a similar background. b. orig. U.S. (esp. among young urban blacks). A member of one's peer group or gang. Sometimes used as a term of address. Also attrib.
Since the early 1980s the term has become particularly strongly associated in the U.S. and the U.K. with the hip-hop subculture.
1946in V. Randolph Pissing in Snow (1977) 80 The home boys all laughed like hell when they heard that [joke about incest in Arkansas families], but..a big farmer from Arkansas..got mad. 1953P. Lanham Blanket Boy's Moon i. vi. 40 Ntoane..also came from Lesotho... ‘Welcome, home-boy. What work are you to do? Ibid. 56 Monare now made Koto known to Ntoane, and for a time the three home-boys sat and exchanged news about the home country. 1961J. Carew Last Barbarian 7 ‘It's like an ice-box in here, Alice.’ ‘All right home-boy, take it slow, man.’ 1963Wilson & Mafeje Langa 55 In the barracks every man questioned could define his home-boy group. 1972Drum (S. Afr.) 22 Oct. 18 When I came to Johannesburg in 1949..I stayed with the homeboys in Sophiatown who also got me a job with a garage. 1982Robinson & Chase On the Radio (song) in L. A. Stanley Rap: The Lyrics (1992) 57, I asked him to explain what I was talking about My man was too excited, he begin to shout I finally figured out what homeboy was saying You never guess what the radio's playing. 1992Face Feb. 46/2 Those guys are my homeboys, if they're in trouble then I'm in trouble. 1992Time 16 Mar. 15/1 Gangs are like families. Little kids get disciplined in gangs. When a little kid drifts into a gang, he doesn't just get a gun thrust into his hands. He's gonna get homeboy love, which is pretty potent. |