: having a name that is not readily recognized by the public
a no-name product
a no-name baseball team
no-name noun

Examples of no-name in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The big brands seemed only too happy to comply, and these days, users will find their feeds littered with spam touting dubious no-name products and services, from supposedly better bras to cryptocurrency exchanges, instead of recognizable promotions from the likes of Disney or Apple. Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2024 Andrew Cunningham The laptop comes with a 512MB no-name CompactFlash card. Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 5 July 2023 Looking nothing like the team that doodled its way to season-opening wins over three no-name teams, UCLA surged into a 35-30 halftime lead thanks to a rare level of early season intensity. Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023 Tampa Bay’s secondary is banged up and rotating in some no-name players. Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023 But to try to break in with sheer force of personality, to use the new tools of the internet to go from no-name to mainstream success? Taylor Lorenz, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2023 His father, Martin, drove a blue Chevrolet station wagon to work at a no-name law firm. Christopher Maag, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023 The group began spending dozens of hours each week navigating the byzantine web of network infrastructure, trying to ferret out connections between no-name intermediaries to track down Kiwi Farms’s new home. Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2023 Stay away from no-name brands at prices that seem too good to be true. Laura Daily, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1942, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of no-name was in 1942

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“No-name.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/no-name. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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