homegirl
noun
a girl or woman from the same locality as oneself.
homegirls
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pluralof homegirl.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“It’s a constant fight of belonging and really having your girlfriends or your homegirls or my mom and my sister. I complain to them every day about something that’s going on at work,” Wallace said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2024
And, oddly enough — and so beautiful — they’re in some of these really dense archives at the Getty, just merrymaking, hanging out with their homegirls and Duke Ellington.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
My readers don’t read journals — they are homegirls that normally wouldn’t be interested in poetry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2019
That kind of body confidence from a dark-skinned, “thick” Black woman, with a round posterior that all my homegirls and I, straight and gay alike, admire, is hard won.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2015
I could hear Jazz talking on the phone in her bedroom, probably to one of her homegirls.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
