These rejected license plates from 2022 show that Texas is trashy AF (NSFW)

Each year, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles rejects thousands of vanity plates requested by drivers that it deems too offensive to appear stamped onto state-issued aluminum.

That means anything state officials decide is vulgar, indecent or potentially offensive to groups based on race, gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation, not to mention good old-fashioned insults or references to illegal activities.

That certainly hasn't stopped Texans from trying to use their rides as an — ahem — vehicle for foul-mouthed free expression, though. From Jan. 1 to Oct. 31 of last year — the most recent data readily available — the DMV rejected a whopping 5,195 plates. H0LYSH17!

Here are some of the highlights. Or, maybe we should say, the lowlights.