Charlie

[ chahr-lee ]

noun

1. a word used in communications to represent the letter C.
2. Also Char·ley. Military Slang. Victor Charlie.
3. a male given name, form of Charles.
4. a female given name.

Charlie

¹

/ ˈtʃɑːlɪ /

noun

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

   Charlie hit us with rockets

Charlie

²

/ ˈtʃɑːlɪ /

noun

1. communications a code word for the letter c

Charlie

³

/ ˈtʃɑːlɪ /

noun

1. slang.
   cocaine

charlie

⁴

/ ˈtʃɑːlɪ /

noun

1. informal.
   a silly person; fool
2. old-fashioned.
   a girl or woman

Word History and Origins

Origin of Charlie¹

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

Origin of Charlie²

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

Example Sentences

Rob McCoy thanked God — and Charlie Kirk, one of the Republican Party’s most influential power brokers.

From Los Angeles Times

After Trump’s victory, McCoy joked from the pulpit: “This week, Charlie’s going back to Washington to meet with the president because he’s going to call in his markers.”

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Gaetz was behind the wheel and joked that his new job was “Charlie Kirk’s driver.”

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Matthew Boedy, a professor of rhetoric and composition at the University of North Georgia, said that “Rob McCoy was the person who turned Charlie Kirk to Christian nationalism, and very specifically the Seven Mountains Mandate,” the idea that Christians should try to influence the seven pillars of cultural influence: arts and entertainment, business, education, family, government, media and religion.

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“Charlie Kirk has tremendous power both in the evangelical world and Trump world and nationally, and he has tremendous resources that he is putting into all seven areas of cultural influence,” said Boedy, who is writing a book about Kirk.

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