schoolie
nounEtymology From school + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
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Australia A senior school student, especially a school-leaver, engaged in unsupervised celebrations during schoolies week.
- Known as the Drug Awareness Network, it was able to find funding assistance for its work from the National Drug Education unit. The network devised a programme of activities which was later advertised to intending Schoolies by helpers walking the streets and distributing leafets containing information about forthcoming events.1996, John Cotterell, Social Networks and Social Influences in Adolescence, page 176:
- Some of the locals prey on the Schoolies.2007, John Chalmers, Byron Bay Taxis and Lunacies, page 78:
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- If staying in November or December, the place is filled with hundreds of schoolies.2009, Justine Vaisutis, Australia, Lonely Planet, page 338:
- But the victim in this case had been a schoolie, she′d been assaulted during Schoolies Week, and her attacker might have been a fellow schoolie.2010, Garry Disher, Blood Moon, page 17:
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Australia A schoolteacher.
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Government, Military, Politics, War UK An education officer.
- Arbroath, being a training station for young naval airmen, also housed several ‘schoolies’ (education officers), four of whom lived in an adjacent building to mine. I quickly struck up a close friendship with two of the schoolies, Ron Horner and Vivian Price.2008, John H. Dunning, Seasons of a Scholar: Some Personal Reflections of an International Business Economist, page 46:
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Fishing, Hobbies, Lifestyle US A juvenile gamefish (especially striped bass) at a stage where it tends to swim with others in schools rather than stay to itself.
- 1997 August, Lawrence Pine, Massachusetts′s Plymouth Rock Bass, Field & Stream, page 94, Poppers and Clouser-style flies can produce large numbers of schoolies that average 16 to 24 inches, with a sprinkling of fish from 24 to 28 inches.
- Oklahomans Jim Campbell and Gary Tyler caught 123 peacocks (including two teeners) by concentrating on the schoolies with jigs and other small lures that day.2003, Larry Larsen, Amazon Peacock Bass Fishing: Top Tactics for Top Locations, page 150:
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- Schoolies tend to concentrate inside harbors and along beaches, often moving far inside tidal creeks and salt ponds.2009, Tom Rosenbauer, Nick Lyons, The Orvis Guide to Beginning Fly Fishing: 101 Tips for the Absolute Beginner, page 88:
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Equestrianism, Hobbies, Horses, Lifestyle, Pets, Sports Informal Synonym of school horse.
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New York City, Slang A public school meal, the school cafeteria food.
- Idk how the schoolie in Georgia is but nyc schoolie is a 5 star gourmet meal2019 June 30, @mahmudashik48, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 10 Jan 2026:
- the schoolie mozzarella sticks are the best meal out of nyc lunch2019 February 26, @eddy_ydd3, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 10 Jan 2026:
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- Who eats schoolie 😭2018 June 17, @andyiism, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 10 Jan 2026:
- Derived terms
- schoolies week
- Related terms
- toolie