homie

Etymology 1
Earliest known reference is in the 1946 tune by Ella Mae Morse and Freddie Slack, "The House of Blue Lights," when Morse improvises a spoken-word intro. Equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1)  Someone, particularly a friend or male acquaintance, from one's hometown.
 * 2)  A close friend or fellow member of a youth gang.
 * 3)  An inner-city youth.
 * 1)  An inner-city youth.
 * 1)  An inner-city youth.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: colega,
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Jamaican Creole: chargie
 * Macedonian: ба́тка
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, ,  ,  ,  ,
 * Swedish: ,

Etymology 2
Variant spelling of Polari (early-to-mid 20th-century British English cant/slang popular among gay men).