In IT, what self depracating name to the core group of friends give themselves?

In IT, the core group of friends call themselves the Losers’ Club.

The group consists of seven outcast children in Derry, Maine: Bill Denbrough, Ben Hanscom, Beverly Marsh, Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak, Stanley Uris, and Mike Hanlon. Their nickname reflects how they are treated by classmates and bullies, especially Henry Bowers and his gang.

The Losers’ Club becomes much more than a self-deprecating label. Their shared outsider status helps them form a powerful friendship and gives them the courage to confront It, the shape-shifting entity commonly associated with Pennywise the clown. In Stephen King’s 1986 novel, the children first face the creature in the late 1950s and reunite as adults decades later when It returns.

A common mix-up is confusing the Losers’ Club with the Bowers gang, their principal human enemies, or with “The Lucky Seven,” a phrase associated with one screen adaptation. The canonical name for Bill and his friends is the Losers’ Club.