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English to English noun
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a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) |  | Example: Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph
Henry's nickname was Slim
source: wordnet30
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a descriptive name for a place or thing | | Example: the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'
source: wordnet30
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A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation. | | source: webster1913
verb
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give a nickname to | | source: wordnet30
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To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname. | | source: webster1913
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