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homegirl, n. slang (orig. and chiefly U.S., esp. Black English).|ˈhəʊmˌgɜːl|
Also home-girl, home girl.
[f. home n.1 + girl n.; cf. homeboy n.]
a. A woman or girl from one's home town, region, or neighbourhood; hence, a friend or associate, esp. one who has a similar background; a member of one's peer group. Sometimes used as a form of address. Also attrib.
Since the early 1980s the term has been strongly associated in the U.S. and the U.K. with the hip-hop subculture.
1934T. Wilder Heaven's my Destination iii. 53 And this is Mississippi, the sweetest and snappiest little home-girl in Oklahoma, if I do say it. 1968Amer. Speech 1967 XLII. 238 Home boy and..home girl and home people, denote individuals who come from the same hometown as the speaker. 1980J. Cock Maids & Madams 62 In Johannesburg it was found that the networks of most domestic workers were both socially and spatially closed. They tended to interact with persons similarly employed in the same locality. ‘Homegirls’ played no particular part in these networks. 1990G. Jacobs Doowutchyalike (song) in L. A. Stanley Rap: The Lyrics (1992) 77 Homegirls, for once forget you got class See a guy you like, just grab him in the biscuits And doowutchyalike. 1991Allure June 71/2 With his frayed denim, quilted baseball caps, and oversize gold necklaces..Kaiser Karl was obviously evoking homegirl chic.
b. A young woman or girl who likes to stay at home; a domesticated, shy, or unworldly young woman or girl.
[1961R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts ii. 54 She isn't a home girl.] 1980E. A. Folb Runnin' down some Lines iii. 77 The expressions homeboy or homegirl, when used in a pejorative sense, often refer to someone who sticks close to home (close to his or her mother) and has little feel for life on the streets. 1992Voice 22 Dec. 18/1 She said we want you to go to college so you don't turn out to be so much of a homegirl. |