Nevada Court Permits “HOE”s
A man from Las Vegas won a legal battle yesterday with the Nevada DMV over his license plate which reads “HOE”. Initially, the state DMV refused to renew his plate citing that he was making a slang reference to hookers (though if you click on ‘hookers’; the link to Urban Dictionary, the actual definition is ‘a skank’, so I’m not sure how that argument holds water).
The man with the plate in question stated that he originally wanted “TAHOE” but it was taken so he opted for “HOE”. The DMV based their case on the definition found on Urban Dictionary (Me luvs! But, um, that would be like basing a claim on Wikipedia, or the Snapple Fun Facts, both known for untruths.) The court ultimately ruled that sites which include user generated contributions, like Urban Dictionary “don’t reflect generally accepted definitions” and that the site “allows, if not encourages, users to invent new words or attribute new, not generally accepted meanings to existing words“.
BTW, for Merriam-Webster’s definition of hoe click here. Personally, I like the audio pronunciations of words like these. Also poop.
