How to Use homeboy in a Sentence

homeboy

noun
  • He was hanging out with his homeboys.
  • He dedicated his win to his homeboys back home.
  • That's my new homeboy right there.
    — Outside Online, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Little bit of @michaelmuller7, little bit of @gilmoregirls homeboy love!
    — Paulina Jayne Isaac, Glamour, 7 Apr. 2021
  • And, like, no matter their history, homeboy did hop countries for her.
    — Mariah Smith, The Cut, 6 June 2018
  • To lend or give money to my homeboys or, on occasion, cover the whole crew’s tab at a club or restaurant.
    — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Here's hoping none of those homeboys wear combat boots to the VMAs.
    — Andrea Park, Glamour, 17 Aug. 2018
  • Dirtybird homeboy Justin Jay will take live electronic to a new level.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • If 50 Cent doesn’t marry you…I’ll introduce you to my homeboy.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 9 July 2018
  • The 100-year-old Los Angeles homeboy, all the way to the majors.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
  • According to the Navy Times, homeboy never served in Vietnam.
    — Anne Branigin, The Root, 20 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • McCarthy hired his homeboy, Nolan, to implement a complicated scheme that required a significant personnel change during a pandemic.
    — Dallas News, 22 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The first venue to host a Lyricist Lounge showcase was The Village Gate, secured after Castro and Marshall, still in their teens, successfully pitched the idea to the owners, even enlisting their Italian drummer homeboy to cosplay as an attorney.
    — Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025

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