Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also charlie cocaine) cocaine; also attrib.

1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks 20/1: Charley, cocaine.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 47: charley Cocaine.
1953		‘William Lee’ Junkie (1966) 99: All that good Henry and Charley. When you shoot Henry and Charley, you can smell it going in.
1968		K. Brasselle Cannibals 43: A droning [...] lulled me into a narcotic sleep like a combination of LSD, ‘pot,’ and a few sniffs of ‘Charley’.
1973		E. Droge Patrolman 167: Whether you call it snow, sugar, dust, coke, C, candy, girl, or Charlie, it’s still cocaine.
1992		V. Headley Yardie 93: Man, we base excess amount ah charlie last night.
1997		N. Barlay Curvy Lovebox 71: How much of the charlie cocaine was you after.
2000		Guardian Guide 8–14 Jan. 13: ‘I used to do a full Christmas dinner [...] and charlie sometimes,’ referring to an after dinner Bolivian treat.
2003		N. Griffiths Stump 55: — Be wrecked now, that fly. All that charlie that’s in yer bloodstream.
2008		A. Wheatle Dirty South 162: Gloria always chatted too much when she was on charlie.
2013		K. Sampson Killing Pool 53: From small-time hoister to big-time charlie baron.
2013		T. Dorsey Riptide Ultra-Glide 22: Coke [...] Charlie, Chippy, Belushi, Foo-Foo, Merck, mojo, movie star [etc].
2017		G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘Whatever you need, mate. Charlie, crack, pills, smack, G, P, ice or black’.

2. a heavy user of cocaine.

1999

K. Sampson Powder 418: Him! Lord Charlie fucking Cokehead The Third!