Tag: Nicknames

Big Blue (International Business Machines)
"Big Blue" is a nickname for International Business Machines...

Blue Helmet

Second City (Chicago)

J-School

Mr. K (Ewing Marion Kauffman)

PJ’s

T-Bone Walker

The Chicago Black Sox
"The Chicago Black Sox" is a nickname given to the Chicago W...

Red Tops
"Red Tops" is the nickname given to the tabloid newspapers i...

X (École Polytechnique)

The Y (Brigham Young University)
"The Y" is a nickname for Brigham Young University. BYU was ...

The Ring of Fire

The Fourth Branch of the United States Government
"The Fourth Branch" of the United States Government is a nic...

The Fab Four
"The Fab Four" is a nickname for the Beatles. John Len...

All Whites
The All Whites is the nickname for the New Zealand national ...

Black Gold
"Black gold" is a nickname for petroleum. It can also be ...

The Gray Lady
"The Gray Lady" is a nickname for The New York Times.

Mr. Five Percent
"Mr. Five Percent" was the nickname given to Calouste Gulben...

Mr. Ten Percent
"Mr. Ten Percent" is the nickname given to Asif Ali Zardari,...

The Crimson Tide
"The Crimson Tide" is the nickname for the sports teams at t...

Ted “Double Duty” Radcliffe
Ted Radcliffe was a professional baseball player, who played...

The Twin Cities
Minneapolis St. Paul In the United States, the "Tw...

First Lady
"First Lady" is the title given to the wife of the elected l...

Eighteen Wheeler

The Brown Bomber
"The Brown Bomber" was the nickname for Joe Louis, the heavy...

The Big Five Accounting Firms
Arthur Andersen (no longer in existence) Deloitte &am...

The Big Six Accounting Firms
Arthur Andersen (no longer in existence) Cooper...

The Fifth Beatle

The Five Valleys in Montana
The Bitterroot Valley The Blackfoot Valley The Fl...

Fiver
"Fiver" is a British slang term for a five-pound note.

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