Nickname - Definition
nickname
n 1: 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" [syn: nickname, moniker, cognomen,
sobriquet, soubriquet, byname]
2: a descriptive name for a place or thing; "the nickname for
the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"
v 1: give a nickname to [syn: dub, nickname]