homo n.2
1. a male homosexual.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Hobo 145: Some ‘homos’ claim that every boy is a potential homosexual. | |
| Half a Million Tramps 344: Some were trying to attract the attention of the ‘homos’, while others were pulling their legs, throwing them kisses and calling them girls’ names. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | For the Rest of Our Lives 165: Like that pongo cobber of yours, the homo. | |
| On The Road (1972) 125: It was also the hustlers’ bar – the boys who make a living among the sad old homos of the Eighth Avenue night. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Doctor Is Sick (1972) 217: ‘Phoney homo,’ sneered Coral. | |
| America’s Homosexual Underground 73: Middle aged and elderly homos who would pay well for their services. | |
| IV Dress Gray (1979) 182: We’ve got a dead cadet, a faggot homo. | |
| Decadence in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 13: You disgust me / you perve / dirty little homo. | |
| (con. early 1950s) L.A. Confidential 171: Well-connected homos who could flush his Hollywood career down the toilet. | |
| Tattoo of a Naked Lady 18: One of those jarhead ex-marine latent homo types. | |
| Bad Sex on Speed 123: Well, gentlemen, here we are [...] and the funny thing is, none of us are homos. | |
| Widespread Panic 31: ‘You fucked a man, Freddy. You’re a homo’. | |
| Empty Wigs (t/s) 287: ...whatever act it was that drove homos to alcoholism and suicide. |
2. (US gay) a masculine lesbian.
| (con. 1930s-40s) Boots of Leather (2014) 7: Sometimes butches would refer to themselves as ‘homos’ when trying to indicate the stigmatized position they held in society. | |
| (con. 1930s-40s) Boots of Leather (2014) 38: ‘[The bar] was not gay. It was mostly men, straight men, and not a place for us, nor for homos’. | |
| 23rd Precinct 111: ‘They think you take sides,’ she says, shaking her head. ‘I’ve had perps call me homo, ‘That fuckin’ homo hooked me up’. |
3. gay pornography.
| (con. 1960s) London Blues 69: You’ll never see any homo. You’ll have to go to Paris or Port Said for that. This London stuff is produced by straights for straights. |
4. (US campus) a weakling, an inadequate [no specific sexuality is implied].
| (con. 1940s) Do Not Go Gentle (1962) 117: The lousiest drag-ass bunch of mother-eatin’ piss-drinkin’ fart sack-lovin’ pack of homos I ever seed. | |
| Great Santini (1977) 94: ‘The little homo’s sleeping naked,’ Bull roared. | |
| Sl. U. 110: homo lame person, loser. | |
 | ‘That Room’ in Our Story Begins 273: Clemson, being a good boy, tried to beg off [...] ‘Come on, Clem,’ I said, ‘don’t be a homo’. | |
| On the Bro’d 301: Ricky had gotten lame and become the sort of homo who goes to Train concerts. |
In compounds
(N.Z.) sideboards/sideburns.
| Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. |
(US gay) any public area where homosexuals meet, pick each other up etc.
| America’s Homosexual Underground 60: Central Park has certain sections known as homo heavens. And in this respect it is no different from dozens of other parks throughout the country. |
In phrases
a phr. used by an apparently heterosexual male to remove any homosexual inference from a possible double entendre.
| ‘They’ 🎵 So many of us envy us, enough to just make a fly bitch bust with disgust, no homo. | |
| ‘Run This Town’ 🎵 To everybody on your dick, no homo. | |
| Corruption Officer [ebook] Ch. 1: When Fungler would get the dice he’d shuffle them, then shake them in his hand - pause - no homo. In the hood when a non gay man says something that sounds gay, he acknowledges that he is not gay by saying ‘no homo.’ It’s nothing against gay people. | |
| email to Gawker 6 Jan. 🌐 Thanks for actually just printing the word nigger, instead of ‘the N word,’ or ‘ni**er.’ The fucking N word?? Seriously?? That’s some fag shit right there. No homo. |