It is the tactile equivalent of the nicknames he doles out to many of them and belongs to a teasing style of interpersonal relations that undoubtedly harks back to his fraternity days.
It was during this phase of her life that she first encouraged the Argentine population to refer to her not as "Eva Perón" but simply as "Evita", which is a Spanish diminutive or affectionate nickname roughly equivalent to "Little Eva" or "Evie".
His nickname derives from a "bakkie", the equivalent of an Australian "ute", a small utility vehicle or pick-up truck, used ubiquitously on South African farms.
While it proudly refers to itself as the Salsa Capital, and the "sweetest", most "partying" city of Colombia, Cali's most beloved nickname is Sucursal del Cielo – something equivalent to "Heaven on Earth".
Their nicknames suggest they are the Brazilian equivalent of New York's popular hip-hoppers.
It had been one of the biggest robberies of that decade, the cracking of a building nicknamed Fort Knox that was, in reality, the security industry's equivalent of the Titanic.
What is interesting though, is that Zidan's nickname also appears to be Zizou, and that there is apparently no Arabic equivalent for offside, advantage or second half- the only words I understand from the commentary.
He acquired the nickname Helicopter Ben for recommending it offset a large tax cut by buying an equivalent amount of government debt, a plan that he compared to a "helicopter drop of newly printed money".
Judges originally ordered raids on General Rondot's home last year and questioned the former head of France's DGSE - the equivalent of Britain's MI6 - as part of the Clearstream dirty tricks political scandal, nicknamed the French Watergate.
At Truffes Folies, in the chic Seventh Arrondissement of Paris, black truffles are selling for the equivalent of about 2,000 euros a kilogram, or more than $1,200 a pound — living up to their traditional nickname, "black diamonds".
Hays, later nicknamed the motion picture "Czar", was paid the then-lavish sum of $100,000 a year (equivalent to more than $1.4 million in 2014 dollars).
