charlie

Definitions

Media Studies

• noun
  (written as Charlie)
  an internationally recognised code word for the letter C, used in radio communications

Military

• noun
  (written as Charlie)
  the third letter of the phonetic alphabet (Cc)

Slang

• adjective cheap and nasty, flashy or in bad taste. A public-school and Sloane Ranger term of disapproval, heard in the early 1980s.
• noun cocaine. A euphemism from the international alphabet designation for the letter ‘C’, or simply a nickname. (The full form of the proper name, Charles, is occasionally used, usually facetiously, in Britain in this sense of the word.).
• noun the Viet Cong personified. During the Vietnam War the military alphabet designation ‘Victor Charlie’ was shortened thus.
• noun a friend. Recorded as an item of Sowetan slang in the Cape Sunday Times, 29 January 1995.
• noun the penis

Nearby Definitions of “charlie”

• character
• charge
• charge card
• chargeable transfer
• Charles Laughton
• charlie
• chart
• charter
• chartered
• charting
• chase

Contexts for “charlie”

7 definitions in context
• Media Studies
• Military
• Slang