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Bonafide 

"dayum girl, tha boi is bonafide"
"tha girl lookin bonafide"
Bonafide by BoNaFidE_QuEEn November 30, 2004

bonafide 

adj. a misspelling of bona fide, Latin for "with good faith".
It's "bona fide", not "bonafide". Sorry.
bonafide by kadatz May 18, 2010

Bonafide 

A Latin word which means genuine or real.
He was a bonafide hero.
Bonafide by AngelBlack June 3, 2015

bonafide 

Your main girl or guy, sometimes out of sevral others.
The girl/guy that is considered the "one". All other girls/guys are just for fun.
All Johns other girls knew that Jane is Johns' Bonafide girl.

Jane had several guys she was seeing, ut Jon was her Bonafide man.
bonafide by Kaazim January 1, 2007

Bonafide 

when you see a super hot female she can be described as many things, such as:

bone-able
bone-alicious
boner-inducing.. etc,etc.

Bonafide is the adjective that you use to sum it all up.
Jesse: Dude, look at that chick in the yellow dress... i just came.

Alfred: Yeah shes definitely bonafide.
Bonafide by Pantathian August 15, 2008

bonafide hustler 

Someone that is either trusted or feared by all. This kind of person knows how to get chedder either by selling drugs,rolling dice,pimpin, etc.
you will never know a bonafide hustler..
More from Urban Dictionary
The striver is an interesting phenomenon that is seen across college campuses. In essence, the striver is an over-achiever who comes from a working or middle class family. He may be an immigrant. He may have been a slacker in HS who was "born again" into an academic wunderkind. Or he may just be an over-achiever who is keeping at it.

The striver is willing to sacrifice his social life at the expense of Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude. The striver is the guy who stays at the library long after you are gone. The striver is the guy who takes 30 credits/semester and considers anything below an A/4.0 failure. The striver doesn't work on campus, he is too busy finding ways to pad his resume instead of working retail or workstudy. The striver lets his grades pay his education by applying to ten scholarships a year.

The striver is a future Soros/Fullbright/Rhodes/Gates/Marshall/etc. fellow. The striver lives to study. For the striver, their fun comes from the rewards they expect to receive in return for their diligence. Be it Law School, B-School, academia, or politics. The striver seeks to find the American Dream through academic success.
Anthony was a striver. He transfered from a TTT to an IVY and graduated in 2 years. He studied his ass off and went to Penn Law. He got a Biglaw offer. But lost it all because of an unmoderated mesasgeboard.

Successful strivers:
- Barack Obama
- Harold Koh
Striver by URM Striver January 3, 2009
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