I live in an area with lots of Spanish speakers from all over Latin America. Today I saw CUCHA UP.
Google et al are all over the map on what this term means, and especially what it means as slang. As different as the varieties of English worldwide are, lots of countries also speak Spanish and there’s lots of local variation.
Various options are dog, old lady, dog bed, calf, cud, dog kennel, scoop, damn, or cheap/low quality/tacky. And many more ideas even less likely.
Based on the vehicle, driver, and context where I saw them, I’m going with an intended meaning somewhere near “Go ugly/tacky early”. Though it might just be “Everything’s better with more dogs”. Who’s to know?
All white car with black carbon fiber trim pieces, bumper accents, & convertible top. Not something I’d be seen in; too gauche for me. But I reports 'em like I sees 'em. Sorry.
In the last couple of days I saw a generic plate background with Y BE SAD.
And a Support Education specialty background with WMMN.
In fine Florida style the Support Education plate has a pretty orange and turquoise beach scene with palm trees, clouds, and the rising / setting sun, plus two people holding books or tablets sitting in the sand “studying” under the palm tree. Which sounds like a pretty unserious way to do education. So very Florida.
I saw ADDAM5 this morning. They also had an “The Addams Family” decal on the window and a bumper sticker of Thing. But I’m taking a WAG that their last name is Addams.
Isn’t “Ue” the umlaut-less representation of “Ü”? Wouldn’t the name sound more like “oo-keh”? (Not that I’m doubting that that’s the way your friend says the name, but I’ve seen some really weird anglicizations of German names. Like how did they get “Bay-ner” for Boehner (Böhner), which sounds more like “burner”?)
I saw a Tesla Model S the other day whose plate was TRN TAY which I take to be the Spanish word triente meaning thirty. The decorative license plate frame looked like the seaming on a baseball. So probably a fan of some baseball player who wears #30. Or maybe the player himself. There was nothing about the car to indicate which team or era.
Or maybe we just have a baseball fan who got the car at age 30 or as a 30th birthday gift.
I recently saw MUTES 89 and began wondering about the significance. My best (or at least most entertaining) guess was that the driver is involuntarily exposed at his/her place of employment to an FM radio station whose center frequency is 89 megahertz, and thus kills the volume at any opportunity.
Probably 10,010x bigger than the original triple-digit Beast. So more like
SUPER-DUPER-MONGO-BEEEEST
Either that’s really “dinner” and the driver is too obese to extract from the wreck.
Or it’s really “donor” and the driver already survived a wreck, extraction, and surgical repair using someone else’s used parts. For which they are grateful.
