hoes before bros

proverb

A woman should prioritize her female friends over her boyfriend or husband.

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sisters before misterschicks before dicks
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Meanings

proverb
  1. USslangvulgarA woman should prioritize her female friends over her boyfriend or husband.

    No! I would never date him after this! Hoes before bros, right?

    2017, Lele Pons, Melissa de la Cruz, Surviving High School, page 238
    3 more examples

    "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.

    2011, Quinn Loftis, Leslie McKee, Prince of Wolves

    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.

    2015, Sophia Henry, Delayed Penalty

    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.

    2022, Claire Cohen, BFF?: The truth about female friendship

    Synonyms: sisters before misters, chicks before dicks

  2. USrareslangvulgarSaid of a man who is willing to sacrifice a friendship for sex.

    'He always puts hoes before bros,' Layla moaned.

    2018, Ella Harper, If I Fall
    2 more examples

    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.

    2018, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, The Lebs

    I admit it, sure: the world definitely wouldn't feel great if the saying were hoes before bros. But. It's not.

    2020, Elizabeth Seibert, The Bro Code

Synonyms & antonyms

proverbA woman should prioritize her female friends over her boyfriend or husband.

Similar
sisters before misterschicks before dicks

Origin

Inversion of bros before hoes.

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APA

hoes before bros. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hoes%20before%20bros

MLA

“hoes before bros.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hoes%20before%20bros. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hoes before bros,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hoes%20before%20bros.

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