HOMIES

Homie (from "homeboy") is an English language slang term found in American urban culture, whose origins etymologists generally trace^[1] to Mexican American Spanglish from the late 19th century, with the word "homeboy" meaning a male friend from back home. The words had use Latino and chicano communities (Zootsuiters) in the United States, starting in the late 1930s/early 1940s and continuing up to the present. As slang terms, the words have come to have variations in meaning, depending on local subcultures in a region, without the stability provided for dicmilitary slang.
tionary-defined words. The term has also been traced to military slang.


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