hoes before bros

English

Etymology

Inversion of bros before hoes.

Proverb

hoes before bros

(US, vulgar, slang) Synonym of chicks before dicks
- 2011, Quinn Loftis, Leslie McKee, Prince of Wolves:
  "Well, I just happened to mention you were a little depressed about the whole Trent thing and needed some girl support, yadda yadda, and my mom totally swallowed it whole. She's all about the hoes before bros," Jen said with a shrug.
- 2015, Sophia Henry, Delayed Penalty:
  After contemplating the friendship code for a situation like this, I knew hoes before bros was the correct answer. Hoes being a term of endearment in this case, of course.
- 2017, Lele Pons, Melissa de la Cruz, Surviving High School, page 238:
  No! I would never date him after this! Hoes before bros, right?
- 2022, Claire Cohen, BFF?: The truth about female friendship:
  At the moment, so many of the terms and phrases we use around female friendship are either twee or ultimately a bit meaningless: sisterhood, sisters before misters, tribe, girl squad, hoes before bros, hovaries before brovaries, life force, power posse, BFF.
(US, vulgar, slang, rare) Said of a man who is willing to sacrifice a friendship for sex.
Coordinate terms: misters before sisters, dicks before chicks
- 2018, Ella Harper, If I Fall:
  'He always puts hoes before bros,' Layla moaned.
- 2018, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, The Lebs:
  I think there is something perverse about this request but if I say no Osama will tell the boys tomorrow I'm a dog, that I'm always putting hoes before bros, and it's not worth copping that for Nada, who doesn't even seem to like me.
- 2020, Elizabeth Seibert, The Bro Code:
  I admit it, sure: the world definitely wouldn't feel great if the saying were hoes before bros. But. It's not.

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