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Definition: Homeboy |
HomeboyNoun1. A fellow male member of a youth gang. 2. A male friend from your neighborhood or hometown. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | Spanish (ese). (references) |
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| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | A superdope homeboy from the Oaktown ("U Can't Touch This"; performing artist: M.C. Hammer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Homeboy (1999) Homeboy (1988) | |
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| "Homeboy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Homeboy" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "homeboy": streetwise-raver-hardcore-homeboy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
homeboy jesus | 135 |
homeboy | 47 |
homeboy jesus shirt t | 43 |
homeboy jesus shirt | 20 |
homeboy industry | 18 |
hat homeboy jesus | 7 |
homeboy jesus tee | 5 |
came homeboy i party | 3 |
homeboy jesus shirt tee | 3 |
homeboy jesus tees | 3 |
band discount homeboy | 2 |
came girl homeboy i looking party | 2 |
hat homeboy jesus trucker | 2 |
homeboy it jesus shirt | 2 |
harold homeboy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "homeboy": homeboys. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-h-m-o-o-y" | |
-2 letters: boomy, homey, hooey. | |
-3 letters: boom, boyo, hobo, home, homo, homy, obey, oboe. | |
-4 letters: bey, boo, boy, bye, hem, hey, hob, hoe, hoy, mho, mob, moo, obe, ohm, oho, ooh, yeh, yob, yom. | |
-5 letters: be, bo, by, eh, em, he, hm, ho, me, mo, my, oe, oh, om, oy, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-h-m-o-o-y" | |
+1 letter: homebody, homeboys. | |
+2 letters: honeycomb. | |
+3 letters: honeycombs, phlebotomy. | |
+4 letters: honeycombed, thrombocyte. | |
+5 letters: honeycombing, thrombocytes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 6F 6D 65 62 6F 79 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... --- -- . -... --- -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101111 01101101 01100101 01100010 01101111 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H o m e b o y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 006F 006D 0065 0062 006F 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42817971688191 |
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