| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
Anybody want to discuss 'homeboy' ?
Seems to mean 'bumpkin' or 'yokel'
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 737.1 | Can't think of a synonym | SSGBPM::BPM5::KENAH | Bring back ELF Classic! | Tue Nov 21 1989 01:17 | 4 |
The way I understand it, homeboy means "someone from the same home turf
as me."
andrew
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| 737.2 | SA1794::CHARBONND | cennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnntipede | Tue Nov 21 1989 16:35 | 6 | |
I've never heard it that way. First usage I encountered
was in "48 Hours," when the bartender in the Black club
called Nick Nolte 'home' (-boy being implied). Definitely
not a friendly term.
It's become common since then.
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| 737.3 | hmmm | BSS::DEBRAV | Fri Dec 01 1989 02:40 | 2 | |
"Homeboy" is like 737.1 said it when the same guy is from the same town
you grew up in.
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