moniker

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a name or nickname

   The boxer earned the moniker 'Iron Fist' early in his career.

Of uncertain origin, recorded from 19th-century British slang (originally among vagrants and tramps); possibly an alteration of monogram, or from Shelta munnik, but the derivation is not firmly established.

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