# Does the word tactical have any meaning in advertisements? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 20, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-word-tactical-have-any-meaning-in-advertisements/1018587 "2025-05-20T16:24:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 70
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-word-tactical-have-any-meaning-in-advertisements/1018587/70 "2025-05-21T12:41:06Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > As others have mentioned, “tacticool” is a thing in my locale. Gucci is to Hollywood Hills as “tactical” is to lifted truck, coal rolling, bumper nut sporting Idaho dipshits. I prefer the Gucci idiots. I saw something cool the other day that I’ve been wanting to share, but it doesn’t really fit into any existing thread I know of. I don’t _think_ there’s an omnibus “random cool / weird shit I saw today” thread. You’ve set the stage with your post so here goes. We’re all familiar with truck nuts. So dumb. The other day out driving I saw something odd hanging from a pickup’s trailer hitch area. Two weird dangly things. I was far enough away I couldn’t quite tell what I was seeing. I finally got close enough at a traffic light. Two opaque blue things hanging that looked about like 7-11 Big Gulp cups: 6-8" tall, a narrow tapered part ~3" in diameter then a step to a larger ~5" diameter section and open at the top. With about 4 thin brightly colored tubular things leading out of the opening and up to wherever they attached to the truck’s hitch. Yep. Truck wire nuts. I had to laugh. Not exactly these, but close: **[Wire Nut Truck Nuts - Etsy](https://www.etsy.com/listing/1846395026/wire-nut-truck-nuts-trailer-hitch)** --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-word-tactical-have-any-meaning-in-advertisements/1018587)._