meaning of nickname
1. A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.
2. To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.
3. a familiar name for a person often a shortened version of a persons given name; "Joes mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henrys nickname was
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