nicknames

'nicknames'

[nickname.n.01] as in: a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)

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Examples:
Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph
Henry's nickname was Slim

'nicknames'

[nickname.n.02] as in: a descriptive name for a place or thing

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Examples:
the nickname for the U.S.

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Constitution is `Old Ironsides'

'nicknames'

[dub.v.01] as in: give a nickname to