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home·girl

 (hōm′gûrl′)
n. Slang
1. A female friend or acquaintance from one's neighborhood or hometown.
2. A fellow female gang member.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun1.homegirl - a fellow female member of a youth gang
youth gang - a gang whose members are teenagers
fellow member, member - one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization); "only members will be admitted"; "a member of the faculty"; "she was introduced to all the members of his family"
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homegirl

[ˈhəʊmgɜːl] N (US) → chica f del barrio
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

homegirl

[ˈhəʊmgɜːrl] (US) n → fille f de la régionhome ground n
[sports team] to play at one's home ground → jouer sur son terrain
(= familiar ground) to be on home ground → être en terrain connuhome-grown [ˌhəʊmˈgrəʊn] adj
(not foreign) [talent, players, stars, youngsters, hero, programmes] → du pays
(from one's own garden) → du jardinhome help n (British) (= person) → aide f ménagère, aide-ménagère fhome improvements npl (= DIY) → bricolage m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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