nick·name /ˈnɪkˌnem/
  綽號,暱稱(vt.)給…取綽號,叫錯名字
  nickname
  別名; 暱稱
  nickname
  別名
  nick·name n.  A name given in affectionate familiarity, sportive familiarity, contempt, or derision; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation; as, Nicholas's nickname is Nick.
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  Nick·name, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nicknamed p. pr. & vb. n. Nicknaming.] To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.
     You nickname virtue; vice you should have spoke.   --Shak.
     I altogether disclaim what has been nicknamed the doctrine of finality.   --Macaulay.
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  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: moniker, cognomen, sobriquet,
             soubriquet]
       2: a descriptive name for a place or thing; "the nickname for
          the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"
       v : give a nickname to [syn: dub]