homie

homie
n
a shortening of homeboy or homegirl, which became popular in the 1990s and was also adopted by white adolescents to refer to their peers, first in North America and subsequently to a limited extent in the UK. When it first appeared approxi-mately fifty years earlier the word was used by black American migrants as an affectionate term of address for anyone originating from the same home town or city
► 'I'm square with my homeys...' (17-year-old black female suspected of the murder of another girl, quoted in the Evening Standard, 2 March 1997)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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