Best non-letter nicknames
 

Help me out if I missed any. Non "letter" nicknames:

- Lambchops (LXA)
- Squids (KS)
- Snakes (SN)
- Sigs (SX)
- Pikes (PKA)
- Skulls (PKS)
- Deke (DKE)
- Dukes, Ducks (DU)
- FIJI (PGD)
- Sammy (SAM)
- Teke (TKE)

I can't think of Sorority ones for some reason. Anyone?

Gammies. :)

Thanks! I'd never heard that one.

"Fuzzies" - ΑΞΔ

Along the same lines as Teke and Deke, there's Zete (Zeta Psi, pronounced "Zate").

Our Epsilon Epsilon chapter at Emporia State University goes by the nickname Apples.

AGR = Aggers (agricultural fraternity)

Snus
Aphi

We always call LXA "lambs" at my school.

Delta Sigma Phi has the funniest nickname. About half of the campus calls them "Digs". I originally heard that this was because they had a reputation for burying their pledging in the sand. Not sure if its true, but they hate the nickname and try to promote "Delta Sig" instead.

Alpha Rho Lambda (Latina sorority) also goes by "Apples."

Sometimes us Beta Sigma Phi's go by "Bee's". As in Busy Beta Bees.:)

SNAKEY K! That may be the funniest and most awesome nickname we have. I'd never heard it before reading Jen's site so I LOL'd pretty hard.

Hrmm... off the top of my head:

Alpha Chi Rho - "Crow"
Phi Mu Delta - "Mudhouse"
Tau Epsilon Phi - "Tep"

Woot Snakey Ks :D

DeeZee - Delta Zeta
DeeGee - Delta Gamma
Taus - Alpha Sigma Tau (hey, if Sigs counts, so does Taus)

Wright State...
 

When I attended there...a whole lotta years ago...(early 1980s)

there was a local fraternity "Beta Phi Omega" and we all called them the
"Bar Flies".

Squids?! Where does THAT come from...we just call them "Kappa Sigs"

and Dukes?! We call them either just "D.U." or some people call them "Ducks"

I've heard all the rest....too bad nobody calls us something cool like "Snakes" on my campus though....

"Deephers" - Delta Phi Epsilon

Pi Alpha Phi are called Pineapples...they're an Asian frat.

You forgot one:

Nupes (KAPsi) :D

Delts = Delta Tau Delta

Kay Dees, KD Ladies = Kappa Delta :)

Haha, I've never heard squids either. But I have heard of Kappa Sigma as

kappa sKEtch

oh wow that's messed up....so now we're heading into MEAN nicknames? I've heard my share....

Sigma Who? comes to mind.

No mean ones. I know mean ones for pretty much every GLO. That aint what I'm asking about.

Que dogs

One one campus, I've heard that the SigEps are called "Speees" (I honestly have no idea how many E's to add to the end of that word!) based on the abbreviation SPE.

That is the first and only time I've heard of that one!

PsychTau

I've mentioned this before, but when I started at IU in 1991, the unofficial guidebook said that the nickname for (I think) AEPhi was "Phisters." I've never heard anyone actually use that, though.

At Rutgers we call Alpha Chi Rho- Crow ive heard it used other places but they got a pretty bad ass looking crow out during rush week

Duke was the only campus I'd ever heard Sig Eps called SPEs.

For some reason this reminds me of a DJ Scrilla song where he says "SPEasy and DGeezy...off the heezy for sheezy." Oh, Scrilla.

yeah never heard of Dukes before. and i wish it would catch on campus to start using the aforementioned DU's and Ducks. it sucks hearing "delta oopsilon" at every philanthropy =(

BYX= "Bucks"
KYX= "Kicks"
ΣΦΛ= "Lambs"

We call each other Cutie Pi s as in A-O cutie Pi.

Is there a lot of fraternities that start with Sigma Phi on your campus? I've never heard of a nickname based on the last letter. At my campus, we call ΛXA "Lambs". Most others are based on their letters:

Phi Sigma Kappa: "Phi Sigs"

Sigma Phi Epsilon: "Sig Eps"

Pi Kappa Alpha: "Pi Kaps"

Delta Sigma Phi: "Digs" (by people outside their influence for possibly burying pledges prior to recolonization) "Delta Sigs" by themselves".

Lambda Chi Alpha: "Lambs"

Sigma Nu: "Sig Nu"


Sororities:

Delta Delta Delta: "Tri Delts"

Zeta Tau Alpha: "Zetas".

Pi Beta Phi: "Phi Phis"

Alpha Chi Omega: "Alpha Chis"

Alpha Xi Delta: "Alpha Zs"

nicknames
 

Dee Gee-Delta Gamma
Dee Zee-Delta Zeta
Tri Sigs-Sigma Sigma Sigma
A Dee Pi-Alpha Delta Pi
Sig Kap-Sigma Kappa
Alpha Sigs- Alpha Sigma Alpha
A O Pi-Alpha Omicron Pi
Sig Lambs-Sigma Lambda Sigma

Tekes-Tau Kappa Epsilon
Pikes-Pi Kappa Alpha
Sig Eps-Sigma phi Epslion
Phi Sigs- Phi Sigma Kappa
Sammys- Sigma Alpha MU
Odeez-Omega Delta
D Chi- Delta Chi
Sig Nu- Sigma Nu
Phi Kappa Sigma- Skulls

Goo Phoo Boos - Gamma Phi Betas

Alpha Sigma Tau = Taus

I believe that this is used because LOTS of sororities have Alpha and Sigma in their name, but I think they're the only (or one of the only) with Tau in their name.

I found this interesting, also along the lines of using the last letter for nicknames. On my campus, Theta Phi Alpha is generally just known as "Theta". One of our girls visited a friend of hers on another campus and somehow came across another girl and got into the discussion of GLO's.

My sister asked the other girl what org she was in, and she replied "Theta". So my sister was like "Cool! We're sisters! Yay Theta Phi Alpha." The other girl looked at her strangely and was like, "Uhm. No. I'm a sister of Delta Sigma Theta. *OUR* nickname is Theta." My sister said the girl was quite huffy about it.

"Theta," to me, and most of the NPC community = Kappa Alpha Theta.

Yes. And I've NEVER seen a DST call themself a Theta...

I mean, their handsign is a Delta for a reason, right? Otherwise they'd probably form an "O" with thumb & forefinger and stick another finger in the middle for the "~" or something along those lines...