Here is an article about Irving “Izzy the Eel” Cohen, Joseph “Socks” Lanza, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, Jake “Greasy Thumb” Guzik and Albert “Tick Tock” Tannenbaum (among others) and how they earned such colorful names.

An Al Capone article can be read here…

– from Amazon:

Read Mobsters and Their Nick-Names<br>(Confidential Magazine, 1958) for Free

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