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  Charlie

  noun

  a word used in communications to represent the letter C.
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  charlie

  noun

  a silly person; fool

Charlie

American  

[chahr-lee] / ˈtʃɑr li /

noun

1. a word used in communications to represent the letter C.

2. Military Slang. Also Charley Victor Charlie.

3. a male given name, form of Charles.

4. a female given name.

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charlie ¹ British  

/ ˈtʃɑːlɪ /

noun

1. informal a silly person; fool

2. old-fashioned a girl or woman

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Charlie ² British  

/ ˈtʃɑːlɪ /

noun

1. communications a code word for the letter c

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Charlie ³ British  

/ ˈtʃɑːlɪ /

noun

1. slang military a member of the Vietcong or the Vietcong collectively

   Charlie hit us with rockets

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Charlie ⁴ British  

/ ˈtʃɑːlɪ /

noun

1. slang cocaine

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Etymology

Origin of charlie¹

C20: for sense 1: shortened from Charlie Hunt, rhyming slang for _cunt ; sense 2 is shortened from Charlie Wheeler, rhyming slang for _sheila

Origin of Charlie³

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

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The 1971 film was the first screen adaptation of the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, written by Roald Dahl at his home in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Elsewhere, a separate headline quotes Sir Charlie Mayfield, the UK's work tsar, as urging that "calling in sick with a text or email must end".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Singer Charlie Puth has offloaded the Montecito mansion where he and Brooke Sansone tied the knot, selling the sprawling estate for $18.5 million.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Real America’s Voice offers shows including “American Sunrise” and “The Charlie Kirk Show,” according to its website.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Little Britches, Glenn, and Charlie were in the first reader.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

"How is charlie kirk 28?," chimed Hanna Gais, a senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2022

This deeply depressing concept is partly why charlie brooker created black mirror.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2015

Sure but nothing that was traumatizing compared to the other injures i.e. ankle sprains, charlie horses etc.

From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2010

Pie is charlie brown because the latter had to have pie at every meal.

From Time Magazine Archive

“They catching hell up there. They say charlie riding hogs up around Quang Tri.”

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers