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Nicknames are very common among Chicanos, but a placa is specifically a gang-related name and often very well describes the person as perceived by friends or other gang members.
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Hanks and Hodges and de Felice say that most of these nicknames could also be bestowed ironically.
Even today, nicknames sometimes serve as a protective shield (as Fats , for example, might protect an obese person from even worse insults).
In his “Feather Report” of 27 October 1990, in The Times , Simon Barnes lists the following nicknames for the nightjar: fernowl, fen owl, jar-owl, churn-owl, goat-owl, goatsucker, nighthawk, dorhawk, moth hawk, wheelbird, puck bird, litch fowl , and gabble ratch , the last having its origins in the Norse meaning `corpse hound,' (similar to litch fowl , which means `corpse fowl').