charlie n.5
a ponce, a pimp.
![]() | Sharpe of the Flying Squad 15: There are also ladies whom the Underworld calls ‘brass nails,’ and gentlemen who permit themselves to be kept by them, and these are called ‘Charlies’. | |
![]() | New Statesman 29 Nov. 463/3: ‘Garn,’ says Bert, ‘he’s no Charlie, bonnie or not. Not with that there barnet, he ain’t. An iron-’oof more likely’ [Simes:DLSS]. | |
![]() | Up the Frog 64: Charley Ronce (Charley). |