home boy—
1. a boy who is fond of staying at home:
- A lonesome little English home boy was playing his mouth organ softly in the dusk.
2. (U.S. coll.) a man from one’s hometown or neighborhood:
- Like many of her home boys and girls who left the state to search for something else, she came back.
3. (U.S. Underworld) a street kid; a member of a teenage gang:
- Some 30,000 “home boys,” or gang members roam, pretty much at will in Los Angelos County.
house-boy—a (usually native) boy employed as servant in a house:
- That’s my houseboy; he has an unpronounceable name, so I call him John.