nicknames
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Nicknames are also used, often inspired by where a person is from or what they look like.
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2025
Nicknames of the defendants included “Joe Fish,” “Sal the Shoemaker” and “Joe Box.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2022
Nicknames usually aren’t too hard to figure out, although they tend to be so similar that a team can run into some trouble if there’s suddenly two of a kind.
From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2019
Nicknames: “El Chapo,” which is Spanish slang for “Shorty.”
From Washington Times • Jan. 20, 2017
Nicknames like "Shrimp" and "Small Fry" haunted me through grade school.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
