Nev. Court Permits 'HOE' License Plate

[Kadie]

Jul 8, 2009 4:00 pm US/Pacific

Nev. Court Permits 'HOE' License Plate

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) ― A Las Vegas man won a courtroom battle Wednesday with the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles over his "HOE" license plate, which the agency refused to renew on grounds that he was using a slang reference to prostitutes.

The high court said the DMV based its refusal of William Junge's plate on definitions found in the Web-based Urban Dictionary, which includes user contributions. It ruled that the contributed definitions "do not always reflect generally accepted definitions for words."

Junge, whose suit was represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, said he had the personalized plate from 1999 to 2006, when the DMV refused to let him renew it.

He said he wanted "TAHOE" for the plate on his 1999 Chevy Tahoe, but it wasn't available so he settled for "HOE." For his plate background, he picked one with a Lake Tahoe panorama.

The high court said Urban Dictionary "allows, if not encourages, users to invent new words or attribute new, not generally accepted meanings to existing words."

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[Quantess]

1. A hoe is also a gardening tool.

Besides, I thought the prostitute slang was spelled HO.

[LuvNewcastle]

2. I've always seen it spelled 'ho.'

[Gabi Hayes]

3. ho ho ho

[izquierdista]

4. Projection, maybe?

Every time I went to the DMV in Las Vegas, there seemed to be a bunch of hos behind the counter.....(or is it hoes?)