answer to the name (of)
phrase
formal
to be called:
Does anyone here answer to the name of Wallis?
He answered to the stage name Ms. Finesse.
See also
answerverb(REACT)
The genre of hip-hop was invented by an 18-year-old who answered to the name DJ Kool Herc.
They found an obliging local who answered to the colourful name of Andy Grafter.
He writes of his teenage self as "the boy who answers to my name".
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