I did see the vanity plate ‘WANKER’ on a quite high-end car on SR51 around 2005. Although it’s an English rather than American expression, it has begun to creep into the U.S. lexicon in recent times. I did wonder whether the owner of the car was being brutally honest, or whether some cheeky Brit had told him that it meant ‘really cool guy’.

For those out there unaware of its meaning, a rough translational would be ‘JRKOFF’ or even ‘MSTRB8R’.