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no-name

no-name adjective: lacking a recognizable name, identity, or reputation; not noteworthy.

Adjective

no-name (not comparable)

  1. Lacking a recognizable name, identity, or reputation; not noteworthy.
    • They went with a no-name shop on the edge of town.
    • A week after we met we were married in a no-name town in the middle of the night by a justice of the peace whose shingle was hanging in front of his house.1999, Barbara Delinsky, chapter 21, in Lake News, Pocket Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 389

Noun

no-name (plural no-names)

  1. Someone or something lacking a recognizable name, identity, or reputation.
    • If you hire some no-name for the job, be sure to check references.

Forms of no-name

pluralno-names

Questions about no-name

What does no-name mean?
No-name means lacking a recognizable name, identity, or reputation; not noteworthy.
What part of speech is no-name?
No-name can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near no-name in the dictionary

  1. no-mark
  2. no-marked
  3. no-marking
  4. no-marks
  5. No-Mates
  6. no-name
  7. no-names
  8. no-no
  9. no-no boy
  10. no-no boys
  11. no-no spot

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