- Rock music
... e popular breakthrough of these grunge bands prompted ''Rolling Stone'' to nickname Seattle "the new [[Liverpool]]."<ref name="success NYT">Marin, Rick. "Grun ...
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- Los Angeles, California
|nickname = L.A., The City of Angels, The Entertainment Capital of the Wor ...
... 6-06-20 |accessdate=2007-01-26}}</ref> Often abbreviated as '''L.A.''' and nicknamed '''The City of Angels''', Los Angeles is rated an [[global city|alpha wor ...
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- Seattle, Washington
| nickname = The Emerald City, Seatown, Rain City, Jet City, Gateway ...
... ty", the result of a contest held in the early 1980s;<ref name="emeraldcitynickname">{{cite web | url=http://www.seattlest.com/archives/2005/10/27/were_not_in ...
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- Boston, Massachusetts
... el/boston/boston_nicknames/ |publisher=The Boston Globe |title=What's in a nickname? |author=Norman Dalager |accessdate=2008-06-12}}</ref> The Hub (of the Uni ...
... usetts|Worcester]], and south to [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]]. Nicknamed "The Walking City", pedestrian commutes play a larger role than in compar ...
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- New York City
| nickname = ''The [[Big Apple]], Gotham, The City That Never Sleeps, The C ...
... i.</ref> and the [[Big Apple]].<ref>[http://www.gothamcenter.org/faq.shtml Nicknames for Manhattan]</ref>
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- Sydney
... n]], which includes [[Port Jackson|Sydney Harbour]], leading to the city's nickname, "the Harbour City". It is noted for the [[Sydney Opera House]] and the [[ ...
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- Rome
|nickname = The Eternal City
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- Software release life cycle
'Beta' is a [[nickname]] for [[software]] which has passed the [[#Alpha|alpha]] testing stage of ...
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- Las Vegas, Nevada
|nickname = {{nowrap|"The Entertainment Capital of the World,"}}<br ...
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- Portland, Oregon
| nickname = <!-- do not add nicknames without reviewing discussion on talk page first --> "Rose City," "[[Stump ...
| title = 'Little Beirut' nickname has stuck
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- Slash
... os Angeles, California with his parents in the mid-1970s. He was given the nickname "Slash" by family friend Seymour Cassel, according to whom Saul "was alway ...
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- Judy Nails
''Judy Nails - Rock Goddess. Born Judith Ann Taylor, she earned her nickname at the age of 7 in a nail gun incident. It was a formative experience in u ...
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- Van Halen
... m introduced the guitar world to the band's signature "[[Brown sound]]," a nickname given to the result of Eddie's guitar/amp combination and technique. With ...
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