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44. Charley Wag--a thimble-rigger or other criminal; pawnbroker.
Some were truly weird, others major innovators whose stature would only be recognized later: Blues radical Charley Patton was forgotten; Dock Boggs and Frank Hutchinson have barely been given their due even now.
But more often, when he reaches for poetry, he achieves only portentousness, as in the nearly play-wrecking "requiem" that Willy's friend Charley delivers at his funeral, "No one dast blames this man."
A certain Tennessean, who became a good friend of Boris Chaliapin, the Time cover artist, got off on the wrong foot when he heard the artist's name as Charley Apin . Since Boris was too polite to correct the Tennessean, and others who knew better found the mistake too amusing to rectify, that one American friend called Boris good ol' Charley Apin as long as the friend lived.
Some have been retained by becoming standard, often because there is no other convenient or adequately descriptive standard term for the same thing, like Charley horse for a leg cramp; others are genuinely standard words but were applied in a slang context, like chassis for a woman's body; many are not frequent enough to have bored their users sufficiently to drop them, like chew out for scold; some might have been dropped by those who are in, only to be picked up by the squares to make themselves appear to be in, like cheeba for (a) cannabis (cigarette).