Definition of homemade
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:made in the home, on the premises, or by one's own efforts
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:of domestic manufacture
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A pepper-spray wielding Trump supporter was smacked to the ground with homemade shields.
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A pepper-spray-wielding Trump supporter was smacked to the ground with homemade shields.
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In 2011, Copenhagen Suborbitals launched a homemade 30-foot (nine-meter) rocket five miles (eight kilometers) into the sky over the Baltic Sea, a step toward its unrealized goal of launching a person into space.
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Though some of its pizzas are unconventional, every pizza from Pizzanista! has all natural toppings, fresh homemade sauce, and a crust that’s crispy, chewy, and a little bubbly.
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Likewise, the food — huge, shareable pastrami sandwiches, stripped-down slaw, addictive homemade potato chips and gorgeously weird pickled purple deviled eggs — is refreshingly, righteously retro.
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Uber itself has raised an alarm about drivers — some with homemade Uber signs in the window — impersonating its workers at airports in New York.
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Make the brilliantly colored flavors of summer even brighter with a sprinkle of homemade salt.
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Find out more at CNN A black deliveryman in Bronx, New York has reportedly been unable to return to work after a Manhattan butcher handed him a homemade noose on April 5.
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First Known Use of homemade
1547
HOMEMADE Defined for English Language Learners
homemade
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adjective
Definition of homemade for English Language Learners
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: made in the home and not in a factory, store, etc.
HOMEMADE Defined for Kids
homemade
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adjective
home·made
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Definition of homemade for Students
:made in the home
- homemade bread
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