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Char·lie

(chär′lē)

n. pl. Charlie Slang

A member of the Vietcong.

[Short for Victor Charlie, pronunciation of the letters VC (short for Vietcong) in the radiotelephony spelling alphabet of the International Civil Aviation Organization.]

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charlie

(ˈtʃɑːlɪ)

1. informal Brit a silly person; fool

2. old-fashioned informal Austral a girl or woman

[C20: for sense 1: shortened from Charlie Hunt, rhyming slang for cunt; sense 2 is shortened from Charlie Wheeler, rhyming slang for sheila]

Charlie

(ˈtʃɑːlɪ)

(Communications & Information) communications a code word for the letter c

Charlie

(ˈtʃɑːlɪ) or

Charley

(Military) military slang US and Austral a member of the Vietcong or the Vietcong collectively: Charlie hit us with rockets.

[shortened from Victor Charlie, communications code for VC, abbreviation of Vietcong]

Charlie

(ˈtʃɑːlɪ)

(Recreational Drugs) slang cocaine

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Translations

Cicero

Charlie

[ˈtʃɑːlɪ] N

1. (Brit) (o.f.) (= fool) → imbécil m
I felt a right Charlie! → ¡me sentí como un idiota!
he must have looked a right Charlie! → ¡debía parecer un verdadero imbécil!

2. (familiar form) of Charles → Carlitos
Charlie Chaplin → Charlot

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charlie

[ˈtʃɑː^rli] n (= cocaine) → coco f

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charlie

(Brit)

(inf: = fool) → Heini m (inf), → Blödmann m (inf); I felt a real charlie → ich kam mir richtig blöd vor (inf); I must have looked a proper charlie → ich muss ziemlich dumm aus der Wäsche geguckt haben (inf)

(sl: = cocaine) → Koks m (inf), → Candy m (sl)

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Feeling that he had been received with distinguished marks of attention, Steve strolled away with his topknot higher than ever, and Prince Charlie pranced across the room, saying in a free and easy tone

"Beg pardon, ma'am; never should have guessed it." And Charlie went off with a laugh, glad to have struck a spark out of his meek cousin.

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"Charlie," she said, "you have asked me to marry you six times."

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"One day we ran into Tough Bill in the Place, and he asked Charlie for the papers he'd given him."

"`You'd better come and take them if you want them,' says Charlie.

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"EXCEPT Gilbert -- AND Charlie Sloane," said Diana, imitating Anne's italics and slyness.

"Charlie Sloane will be a great comfort, of course," agreed Anne sarcastically; whereupon both those irresponsible damsels laughed.

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Then it was that Carmack, his brother-in-law, Skookum Jim, and Cultus Charlie, another Indian, arrived in a canoe at Forty Mile, went straight to the gold commissioner, and recorded three claims and a discovery claim on Bonanza Creek.

I've took out forty-five ounces already.' And I went along, Skookum Jim and Cultus Charlie, too.

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Charlie Sloane dared Arty Gillis to jump over it, and Arty did because he wouldn't take a dare.

Charlie Sloane says that his grandmother saw his grandfather driving home the cows one night after he'd been buried for a year.

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'And what if she should have slipped in clambering among them,' I reflected, 'and been killed, or broken some of her bones?' My suspense was truly painful; and, at first, it gave me delightful relief to observe, in hurrying by the farmhouse, Charlie, the fiercest of the pointers, lying under a window, with swelled head and bleeding ear.