Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Homie (from \"homeboy\") is an English language slang term found in American urban culture, whose origins etymologists generally trace 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 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 dictionary-defined words. The term has also been traced to military slang."@en }
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- Homie abstract "Homie (from \"homeboy\") is an English language slang term found in American urban culture, whose origins etymologists generally trace 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 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 dictionary-defined words. The term has also been traced to military slang.".