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Predictably, Willes was nicknamed "Cereal Killer" and "Cap'n Crunch."
After World War II it was taken over by the Occupation for military housing and nicknamed “Washington Heights,” then redeveloped as the Olympic Village site for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games.
Among Arabs, Bin Ladin's followers are commonly nicknamed takfiri, or "those who define other Muslims as unbelievers," because of their readiness to demonize and murder those with whom they disagree.
When the fourpenny groat was introduced passengers handed that over and the cabbies were down twopence on each journey, so they nicknamed it Joey and frequently spat on it in disgust before pocketing it whenever one was given to them in payment.
Those skyscrapers are banks, and the street on which they stand has been nicknamed the Milla de Oro, or Golden Mile.