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"ref": "2011, Quinn Loftis, Leslie McKee, Prince of Wolves:",
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"ref": "2017, Lele Pons, Melissa de la Cruz, Surviving High School, page 238:",
"text": "No! I would never date him after this! Hoes before bros, right?",
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"text": "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.",
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"text": "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.",
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