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wanksta en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Blend of wannabe + gangsta, and simultaneously also evocative of wanker.

Meanings

  1. (derogatory, slang) A person who pretends to be a member of an urban gang or affects hip-hop styles and attitudes; a gangster poseur.
    • And my heart's desire wasn't to be known as some fake wanksta or a spoilt little rich kid. 2008, Alex Wheatle, The Dirty South, Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, page 49:
    • Nearly two hundred years separate Jim Crow from Vanilla Ice, The (White) Rapper Show, Eminem, the Beastie Boys, and a legion of other wanksta wiggers. 2011, Miles White, From Jim Crow to Jay-Z: Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 125:
    • That was where the chickenheads and wankstas hung out, sporting Sean John, Rocawear, Enyce, and Phat Farm like ghetto-fab Italian suits. 2004, Eric Jerome Dickey, Naughty or Nice, New American Library, →ISBN, page 37:

Forms

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Hypernyms

wanker

Synonyms

wankster