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Noun nick name has 2 senses
- nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet - a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim"
--1 is a kind of appellation, denomination, designation, appellative
- nickname - a descriptive name for a place or thing; "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"
--2 is a kind of name
Verb nick name has 1 sense
- dub, nickname - give a nickname to
--1 is one way to name, call
Sample sentence:
They nickname him "Bobby"
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