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nickname

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(1) An alternate name used to identify yourself in a chat room.

(2) A shortcut for identifying a recipient in an e-mail address book.
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Zarathustra's habit of designating a whole class of men or a whole school of thought by a single fitting nickname may perhaps lead to a little confusion at first; but, as a rule, when the general drift of his arguments is grasped, it requires but a slight effort of the imagination to discover whom he is referring to.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
In time he came to be liked, and well liked too; but by that time the nickname had got well stuck on, and it stayed.
Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context
how could you call him a nickname the very first time you ever saw him?
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context
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