Homies

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Homies

A slang term for stocks in home building companies. The term is most commonly used in the plural.

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I'm never, like, "Hey, can you wait until I've done this?" I remember a couple of homies were like that growing up and I'd be, like, "Hey, man, that's kinda weird.

Jamie Foy

It makes it a bit harder to put out a homie video 'cause half the dudes are working nine-to-fives and can only skate on the weekends--or they're skating for a living and their sponsors want their footage.

WORKIN LIKE A DAWG: THE MAKING OF SHEP DAWGS FIVE

I've gone on a couple of random hikes in the Hollywood Hills with my homies. I like doing that.

Simon Bannerot

But we have a lot of homies, a bunch of GX type of dudes, there that I skate with.

Fight for your right: GX1000's Ryan Garshell talks cops, crews and cruising NYC

Like in his first book, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion (Free Press), Boyle tells the stories of the homies with whom he's worked over the years and reflects on how their struggles and triumphs have shaped his own spirituality.

BARKING TO THE CHOIR

Long forgotten by the trade press and often shunned by mainstream retailers, Homies comprise a huge portion of our industry.

The guerrilla framer

Clearly nobody told him this, however, and despite his assertion that he has "hella good Jewish homies," he nevertheless donned a fake hook nose, black wig, and false beard to play a secret show in Seattle last Friday, cutting a figure that above-mentioned Jewish homies might find just a bissel offensive.

Rapper Macklemore Performs Wearing Fake Hook Nose

Instantly-recognisable in their bright orange tee-shirts, these students are the self-proclaimed "homeless homies".

'5 Days for the Homeless' initiative by Dubai students gathers pace

at Allowing the crowd to bellow out requests for each song, the man from Tucson, Arizona improvised his entire set, with songs such as Dead Homies and Sleepy Vampire perfect showcases for that infamous gravelly voice and muscular guitar style.

EDDIE SPAGHETTI

Grey ruffle-hem sweatshirt, TK Maxx Pink silk shorts, Topshop Boutique Leopard-print tote, River Island Jewelled T-bar pumps, Miss Selfridge Girls Aloud singer Nicola, 27, is wearing a 'Homies South Central' sweatshirt by Brian Lichtenberg, but you can get your own version from www.truffleshuffle.com.

NO SWEAT; Thanks to labels such as Celine and Lanvin, the humble sweatshirt has become a hero fashion piece, and is ideal for layering over shorts, skinny jeans or even a summer dress

"Roman holiday with homies," People magazine quoted Kutcher as tweeting.

Ashton Kutcher spends holidays with Moore look-alike Lorene Scafaria

I will leave you with some of the new words I have learned - homies, phat and streetz.