Charley

Or Char·lie

[chahr-lee]

noun

Military Slang.

plural

Charleys 

1. Victor Charlie.

Example Sentences

England's Charley Hull fired a 63 to share fourth on 266 with Americans Auston Kim and Lucy Li.

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The novel relates the partly autobiographical story of Charley Klein, who is raised in community housing in the Bronx, N.Y., in the 1930s by an overworked mother and a resentful, invalid father.

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Charley finds direction when a neighborhood janitor invites him into a pickup game.

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While in college, Charley is pressured into a point-shaving scheme run by a local mobster.

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The gang’s threats and Charley’s fear of being caught dog him into the pros, filling him with a cynical awareness of the ways his playing is used to make money.

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