nickname
/ˈnɪkneɪm/ noun B1- A familiar, invented name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing, often based on some noteworthy characteristic. · "The Big Apple" is a common nickname for New York City.
- A familiar, shortened or diminutive name for a person or thing. · My name is Jonathan, but I go by my nickname, Johnny.
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I’d like to know them both--know them well--well enough to walk with my arm about their waists, and call them nicknames.
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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