Wankees (Yankees); Coneheads (Con Ed employees)

[neil]

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> I suppose, by the very nature of things, a WANKEE is the same as a WANKER?
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> --Charlie

One could argue that a wankee is a person who is wanked, on the lines of
fucker and fuckee.

-- Neil Crawford
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