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1. A familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
   "Henry's nickname was Slim"; "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph";
   - moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname, monicker
    
2. A descriptive name for a place or thing
   "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is 'Old Ironsides'"

1. Give a nickname to
   - dub

Derived forms: nicknamed, nicknames, nicknaming

Type of: appellation, appellative, call, denomination, designation, name

Encyclopedia: Nickname