• (British) IPA: /ˈhəʊ.məʊ/, /ˈhɒm.əʊ/
• (America) IPA: /ˈhoʊ.moʊ/

homo (plural homos)

1. (colloquial, often, pejorative) Clipping of homosexual

   I heard that he's a homo, but he hasn't come out of the closet yet.

• German: Homo
• Russian: го́мик

homo

1. (colloquial, sometimes, pejorative) Of or pertaining to homosexuality.

homo

1. (dated, US, Canada) Homogenized milk with a high butterfat content.

homo (not comparable)

1. (Canada, US) Homogenized; almost always said of milk with a high butterfat content.

From Latin homō̆, sometimes as a shortening of Homo sapiens.

homo (plural homos)

1. (nonstandard) A human.
   • 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, X-ing a Paragrab:

     John, John, if you don't go you're no homo—no! You're only a fowl, an owl, a cow, a sow,—a doll, a poll; a poor, old, good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a Concord bog.

From Latin homō.

• English:
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈhəʊ.məʊ/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈhoʊ.moʊ/

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Hominidae – various species of man, all but one of which is extinct.
   • 2008, Futurama: Bender's Game (in English):

     Good God. Just knowing we're in the same genus makes me embarrassed to call myself Homo.

• Africanthropus, Anthropus, Archanthropus, Atlanthropus, Cyphanthropus, Europanthropus, Javanthropus, Kenyanthropus, Maueranthropus, Meganthropus, Nipponanthropus, Notanthropus, Palaeanthropus, Pithecanthropus, Praehomo, Proanthropus, Pseudhomo, Sinanthropus, Tchadanthropus, Telanthropus

• Russian: лю́ди

homo

1. (chemistry) Acronym of highest occupied molecular orbital