We need to have a talk about the nickname "Nuk"
 

Someone explain this to me.

I'm generally not a fan of player nicknames. Silver Dick Trent Williams being the primary example.

Make me understand and like this nickname.

DeAndre Hopkins, a wide receiver for the NFL, got his nickname "Nuk" from his mother as an infant because he would often chew through NUK pacifiers. The nickname is pronounced "nuke", while the pacifier brand is pronounced "nook".

I was thinking more like KNUCK.

I had always assumed it had to do with him going "nuclear." Wikipedia enlightened me.

Nuk, after 'nook', is when as a 16 year old he would still 'nook' against his mother as she breast fed him. He grew up big and strong and avoided the steroid police growing up as his mother was on them instead, as we all know if you take steroids through breast milk they are undetectable, and he grew up unnaturally big and strong, knowing one day he would be traded to the Chiefs and play for a real QB.

Most nicknames are dumb AF. A few exceptions include:

Night Train

Galloping Ghost

Megatron

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I always just assumed he was a passionate supporter of nuclear holocaust.

I just thought he loved Bull Durham

I assumed his nickname was nuk because he nuked Skyy Moore's chances of ever appearing on an NFL field again.

We're living in a dark age of nicknames. Nicknames haven't been good since WWII, and they were barely good then.

We simply shouldn't have nicknames.

I thought it was a Stooges thing.
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If he scores a TD Sunday I'm going to bust a Nuk..

Do you like it better than Pasquatch?

Neal Smith will tell us the Nuk keys to the gam

Nukka please!

Sweetness

Honey Bear

Nigerian Nightmare

That's Puka Nacua's nickname.

Always thought it was a reference to Nuclear Bombs lol

A lot of folks pronounce it "Nuk", when it's actually pronounced "Nuk".

Cheeta

Big Dick Nick

As nicknames go I feel they have to be given by a coach or teammate. Self appointed nicknames are stupid.

Lance Bambi Alworth.

Thank you 4 this!!!

YES!!!!!

That’s a dumbass way to get a nickname but it obviously stuck so what do I know

Go nuk yourself!!

My first thought was of Nucky Thompson from Boardwalk Empire. "Nucky" was a very much preferable variation of "Enoch."

fyp

Nuk if you buck

You don't like his nukname?

Reference to nuclear waste.

A reference to Big Mikes moose Nukkle?

Isn’t it Silver Back? Never heard Silver Dick haha

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Hopkins got the name NUK (Pronounced NUKE) when he was a baby, because he used to chew through his pacifiers. That's the truth. I heard him tell that story in an interview in Houston, back when he was a Texan.

I think that’s what Adam Silver calls his pepe.

Like Rainman? :)

That's my given name.

This is the most reeruned nickname in sports