Meanings
plural wanksters
- derogatoryslangA person who pretends to be a member of an urban gang or affects hip-hop styles and attitudes; a gangster poseur.
[…] that whiteboy wannabe wankster waste is so far behind he can't even dream of catching up.
2005, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Volumes 56-57, 482 more examples
He becomes a real-life version of the synthesized, ghetto-head wanksters that MTV parades as black males in their Real World shows.
2004, Rajen Persaud, Why Black Men Love White Women: Going Beyond Sexual Politics to the Heart of the Matter, Pocket Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 82The first prototype of what would eventually morph into Ali G was called MC Jocelyn Cheadle-Hume, whom Sacha describes as “a hip-hop journalist, a wankster reporter.”
2008, Kathleen Tracy, Sacha Baron Cohen: The Unauthorized Biography: From Cambridge to Kazakhstan, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 47Synonyms: wanksta
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA person who pretends to be a member of an urban gang or affects hip-hop styles and attitudes; a gangster poseur.
Origin
Blend of wannabe + gangster, and simultaneously also evocative of wanker.
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