Oh man. I have a few of these especially because I had one friend in college that would give nicknames to everyone we played basketball with, but:

High school…

• In High School I played soccer and they had me take all the throw-ins because I could throw it really far. My buddy that covered the games commentated and would call me “The Big Throw” which was pretty funny, but people watching thought he was calling me “The Big Throat” which led to some pretty weird rumors..
• My friend on the team got called YouTube because he had a beautiful shot just outside the box, upper 90, that ended up on YouTube
• My friend Bryan would call me ConBear/CBear, which caught on so much that my parents started calling me it. He was Brynoceros and our friend Jeff was Jefferpillar.
• For some reason my friend Chris and I dared a third friend, Sammy, to sip this gross, expired, really concentrated bottle of SunKist. He didn’t listen and went all out, chugging the whole thing while we begged him to stop. He threw it back up within not even 15-20 seconds. My friend Chris said he was “Sammy the SunKist fountain”. It’s probably still his MySpace name.

College… - I proudly coined my mild-mannered, athletic buddy Alec “Big Fat Alec”. He was 5’9 and not an ounce over 135 lbs. - Awesome Asian buddy that, until Junior year, I had no idea went by Trey Chan the Science Man. Swimmin’ in it. - Had this guy that kinda forced his way into our friend group. Let him play some random xbox arcade game with us once, he made a profile called “Consumptus”, which I guess is Latin for “having been devoured/consumed”. My other friend made a counter-account called “Digestus”, both kind of stuck. - In intramural football a pal wore gardening gloves to catch the football and we called him “Green-Thumb”. - Girl I knew would auto-correct in my phone to “Bang” and it became a not-so-discrete reference. - Joe Wow.. smart kid, the least socially aware someone could possibly be. On a scale of 1-10, 1 being Gary Busey, he was a -4. He would say “Wowwww” to everything, even if you said hi to him. He’d play/draw Pokemon through all his classes and still did well, I don’t even know why he went.

Playing pickup basketball in college… - A different friend named Chan had enormous calves and was everywhere on the court, I guess those two identifying factors led to the moniker “Air Chan”. - Rando that would always show up and play we called “Splenda”. Not cause his jumpshot was sweet/smooth or anything, he actually wasn’t very good. Just a nice, sweet kid. - Cinemax - Friend in my hall had a hairy chest and he was “Rogaine”. We never played shirts versus skins, he was just really hairy. - I never knew the catalyst but everyone called this one kid “Olaf Dagger”. Zero backstory on it, his name was Kevin or something. - One of the RAs would always play shirtless, in a tank, or ripped up sleeveless shirt. He was actually pretty nasty and he was built so he became “Trent Uzzi” for his arms and penchant to throw up jays.

Hope I got them all, what a trip down memory lane.