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- proper noun informal
nickname for a tall (usually male) person
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Examples
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Maigret couldn’t recall the names Micou or Jussiaume, or the nickname Lofty, but he retained a vivid memory of rue de la Lune, on a day as hot as this, when the asphalt feels elastic underfoot and fills Paris with the smell of tar.
Maigret and the Burglar's Wife Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 1956
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Ernestine Micou, alias Lofty (now Jussiaume), who, when you arrested her seventeen years ago on rue de la Lune, stripped herself naked to taunt you, requests the favor of an interview on a matter of most urgent and important business.
Maigret and the Burglar's Wife Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 1956
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The engineering development was directed by Norman Dewis, who worked with Frank England, a tall man known by the wonderful nickname Lofty England.
NYT > Home Page By PHIL PATTON 2011
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[Here comes the "Lofty" part] We asked you for courage.
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I agree with you, the Lofty was a good one, one on the list I’ve read already.
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Now that you are retiring, are you going to resurrect your career as Gunner 'Lofty' Sugden in It Ain't Half Hot Mum?
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Now that you are retiring, are you going to resurrect your career as Gunner 'Lofty' Sugden in
Army Rumour Service 2010
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'Lofty' Wiseman's (ex SAS, Survival Expert Extraordinaire) Survival Kit.
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The wine in question is a Riesling from the Eden Valley, not a valley at all but part of the Mount Lofty Ranges that sit in South Australia, northeast of Adelaide.
Styling Australia's Riesling Will Lyons 2011
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Lofty valuations and market hype make the stocks enticing targets.
Bears Hungry for More Tech Shares Chris Dieterich 2011
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