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moniker; monicker noun- a nickname or sobriquet UK, 1851
- From this trick he got this moniker. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 43, 1953
- True monicker was Early Gibson but he was called Early Riser. — Chester Himes, Cotton Comes to Harlem, p. 31, 1965
- This is to say that the hustler’s nickname is a monicker, not an alias. — Ned Polsky, Hustlers, Beats, and Others, p. 115, 1967
- Kid, you’ve outgrown “Young Blood” as a monicker. How about “Iceberge slim?” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 221, 1969
- JOHNNY: What d’you think, Mon? MONICA: Me moniker’s Monica. — Terry Victor, Family Affair, 1991
- Bernie the Bolt, who acquired said moniker on account of his prodigious ability to turn Scotch mist (disappear)[.] — Andrew Nickolds, Back to Basics, p. 130, 1994
- They called her “Anne of a Thousand Names.” That’s the moniker her fellow detectives hung on her because during her police-department career she’d been Anne Zorn, Anne Barlett, Anne Sullivan, Anne Minskey, and now Anne Zorn again. — Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, p. 133, 1996
- And now Marco Pierre White has stuck his moniker on the outside. — Guardian, 13 April 2002
- a signature UK, 1851
Extended from the sense as “a person’s name”. - the mark that identifies dice as being from a given casino or gambling house US
- — The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, p. 128, May 1950
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