Nicknames Archives

Nicknames

Consider the Mobster

From a list of nicknames for defendants indicted in November 2020. The charges include racketeering conspiracy, illegal gambling, loan sharking, extortion, and drug trafficking. The Department of Justice alleges that…

Pretty Hurts

by Stella Oh,

From nicknames given to participants on Let Me In, a South Korean reality-television show, in which a panel of beauty experts approves contestants for a plastic-surgery makeover. The nicknames describe…

Marching Orders

From a report by the Ohio State University’s Office of Compliance and Integrity on sexual hazing within the university’s marching band. Junior band members performed various “tricks,” “either on command…

By Any Other Name

From terms of address in The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, edited by Katherine Bucknell, published last month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Isherwood met Bachardy,…