Charlie
/ˈtʃɑɹli/ noun C2- radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter C.
- The Vietcong (Victor Charlie); (by extension, sometimes) any enemy.
- Cocaine.
- A woman's breast
- A short, pointed beard, like that of King Charles I.
- The situation in some blackjack variants where a player wins automatically by showing a hand with the correct number of cards.
Plural Charlies
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Charlie Sloane is _dead gone_ on you.
And I hate Charlie Sloane, I can’t bear a boy with goggle eyes.
With resentful eyes and passion-red cheeks she confronted alike Diana’s sympathetic gaze and Charlie Sloane’s indignant nods and Josie Pye’s malicious smiles.
Charlie Sloane’s slate pencil, gorgeously bedizened with striped red and yellow paper, costing two cents where ordinary pencils cost only one, which he sent up to her after dinner hour, met with a more favorable reception.
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