sobriquet

noun

1. 绰号；外号
   an informal name or title that you give sb/sth

1. N-COUNT 假名;绰号;诨名
   A sobriquet is a humorous name that people give someone or something.
   1. From his staff he earned the sobriquet 'Mumbles'.
      他的员工给他起了个“咕哝虫”的绰号。

1. From his staff he earned the sobriquet 'Mumbles'.
   他的员工给他起了个“咕哝虫”的绰号。
2. The team acquired the sobriquet Jail Blazers.
   球队得到一个新绰号“监狱者”。
3. Some influences did creep in: witness the club jackets, boots, Afghan trousers and multi-strand belted dhoti that seemed destined to earn the sobriquet Kabul chic.
   这里面确实悄悄渗入了一些影响：看看夜总会夹克、长靴、阿富汗长裤和多股缠绕的腰带，这些似乎注定要赢得喀布尔时尚的诨名。
4. He spent 33 years at Ford, where he became president and chief executive officer, and was renowned both for his abrasive style and ruthless attitude to cost-cutting, earning him the sobriquet of Jac the Knife.
   他曾在福特效力33年，最终担任福特总裁兼首席执行官，以粗放的风格和对成本削减的无情态度而著称，由此获得雅克利刃（JactheKnife）的绰号。
5. For a moment, forget that this is coming from an HR guy ( I hate this sobriquet). Instead, look at the root of the problems.
   此刻，让我们暂且不提这篇文章是出自人力资源部某个家伙（我讨厌这个称呼）之手，来看一看问题的根源吧。
6. The dashes looked like ants in a column; thus, this effect earned the colorful sobriquet marching ants.
   虚线看上去就像一队蚂蚁，因此这种效果赢得一个形象绰号，即行进中的蚂蚁。
7. The semiconductor companies who earned the San Francisco peninsula its Silicon Valley sobriquet are set to be displaced in their consumption of that core material by a new high-technology industry.
   一个新的高科技行业将在关键原料的消费方面，超越那些为旧金山半岛赢得硅谷称号的半导体企业。
8. India plans to mothball its mainstay MiG-21 Soviet-era fighter jets, which have earned the sobriquet "flying coffins" because of their dismal safety record.
   印度计划封存它主要的米格-21喷气式战机，由于该装备令人沮丧的安全记录，它已经获得了“飞行棺材”的绰号。

noun

1. a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
   1. Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph
   2. Henry's nickname was Slim

   Synonym:    nicknamemonikercognomensoubriquetbyname