Nicknames can be ironic.
When I was a kid, I read about the late NASCAR driver “Tiny” Lund, who got the moniker from being 6’5”, 270lb in a sport tailor-made for the vertically challenged.
Nicknames can also be hyperbolic.
Take “Riverboat Ron” Rivera, the NFL coach who got a reputation as a gambling man simply for punting slightly less often than average o…
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