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Definition of Homeboys
1. homeboy [n] - See also: homeboy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homeboys
Literary usage of Homeboys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treatment Services for Adolescent Substance Abusers by Alfred S. Friedman (1998)
"During this period, for example, YES found out that homeboys were not simply a
large group of adolescents who hung out together. Rather, they were the core ..."
2. No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons by Joanne Mariner (2001)
"So Mosely said Oh hes with you and left [X] said Im riding with him and if I
don't like that we can fight then 111 let my homeboys have you. ..."
3. Gang Suppression & Intervention: An Assessment by Irving A. Spergel (1993)
"They emulate the males, dress like "homeboys," and consider themselves as tough
as the males are; they are motivated to participate in a "subculture of ..."
4. Sweet Battlefields: Youth and the Liberian Civil War by Mats Utas (2003)
"... fighters in the same way as they would have teamed up with older men—the
difference in this case though was that they teamed up with 'the homeboys' whom ..."
5. Treatment of Opiate Addiction Using Methadone: A Counselor's Manual by Michael J. McCann, Richard A. Rawson, Jeanne L. Obert (1995)
"... personal history of addiction and recovery, they often feel uncomfortable
being viewed as a member of "the system" rather than as one of the "homeboys. ..."
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