Mr. Wepner has claimed to have received more than 300 stitches in his career - hence his colorful nickname.

The immediate peer group is a roomful of Pistons, many with strong personalities, colorful nicknames and identifiable quirks.

The combatants took on colorful nicknames for the evening.

Most combines are given colorful nicknames by their owners.

Aside from his death at a young age, he was remembered for his colorful nickname, a play on dill pickles.

Can anybody think of a public woman with a colorful nickname?

It owed the colorful nickname to its humpbacked shape, which local residents apparently believed resembled a turtle.

But in transforming the novel to the screen, the accountant's colorful nickname has vanished.

This can be seen as a kind of cyberpunk folk-poetry - after all, baseball players also have colorful nicknames.

Oh, those wacky rich people and their colorful nicknames.