charley horse , also: charlie horse

I got a charley horse in bed a few weeks back.

Charley horses began to gallop up and down my arms.

How come they named the Charley horse after him?

Turned to comics page while wondering what ever happened to the good old Charley horse.

For some reason or other she seems to have suddenly developed a Charley horse in her lifting muscles.

A moment later the Charley horse in her deltoid muscle began to let go.

A charley horse hit her calf but she hardly noticed.

It has been diagnosed as a charley horse, not a knee injury.

"I got a bruise on my thigh after he gave me a charley horse."

Keep beating on your leg like that and you'll wind up with a charley horse.

It was a muscle-cramp, a bad one, what the jocks called a Charley horse.

"I know it might look funny to people, that it's a charley horse.

Carpenter has been nursing a charley horse in his right leg for about 10 days.

He remained in the trainer's room for treatment of a charley horse above his right knee.

Of his injury, he said, "It feels like a Charley horse, just in your shoulder."

He had been dismissed following the second period because, Crawford said, of a charley horse in his left leg.

Q. What causes a charley horse and how can I avoid it?

Maybe it was a charley horse or a cramp, something torn loose.

So if I hit someone in the thigh, then that is called giving someone a Charley horse.

I bent down (discovering charley horses in every muscle) and checked him.

"Bruised, and the worst damned charley horse, but nothing feels broken."

This sudden, tight, intense lower leg pain is sometimes called a "charley horse."

Taking aspirin may cause bleeding or bruising, but charley horses are not be a common side effect.

"Oh, yes, I pitched two innings this afternoon, and got a Charley horse.

"But to me, it's just an old-fashioned charley horse."