Many common tesuji have standard names, such as the crane's nest tesuji, the nose tesuji, snapback, throw-in, etc. I find that giving names to things like this makes it easier to remember them.
There are a few other tesujis that I've ended up giving my own personal names to. This will always be the fish-hook tesuji to me, for obvious reasons:
While this is the needle-and-thread tesuji:
The needle punctures the fabric at
and then draws the thread back to 
through the fault line that exposes White's shortage of liberties.Finally, this is the hang-back tesuji:
hangs back, apparently leaving the marked stone out to dry, but demonstrates that it's still safe with .Do you have any personal names for common tesuji? Do any of the above tesuji have standard names that I'm unaware of?
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- she told me that the sequence has a special name. Some years ago there was a girl named Linda, who visited the go club and played all the time this wrong sequence (starting with Move 2) and was not able answer the hane at 1 properly. Therefore her follow go-club members started to call the first line hane in constallation with the two lonely black stones the Linda-Sequence, because Linda would fall for it every time.