nickname
/ˈnɪkneɪm/ verb C2- To give a nickname to (a person or thing). · Gerald, nicknamed "Jerry", was usually a very cheerful person.
He/she/it nicknames · Past nicknamed · Past participle nicknamed · -ing form nicknaming
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- nickname
- He/she/it
- nicknames
- Past
- nicknamed
- Past participle
- nicknamed
- -ing form
- nicknaming
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If our Wild West friend tries to live up to his nickname, we must be ready for him.
Morrel’s daughter, and had remained with him in spite of the efforts of his friends to induce him to withdraw; the other was an old one-eyed cashier, called “Cocles,” or “Cock-eye,” a nickname given him by the young men who used to throng this vast now almost deserted bee-hive, and which had so completely replaced his real name that he would not, in all probability, have replied to anyone who addressed him by it.
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