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schoolie en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English school Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English -ie English schoolie From school + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Meanings

1. (Australia) A senior school student, especially a school-leaver, engaged in unsupervised celebrations during schoolies week.
   • Some of the locals prey on the Schoolies. 2007, John Chalmers, Byron Bay Taxis and Lunacies, page 78:
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • If staying in November or December, the place is filled with hundreds of schoolies. 2009, Justine Vaisutis, Australia, Lonely Planet, page 338:
2. (Australia) A schoolteacher.
3. (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:
4. (US) A juvenile gamefish (especially striped bass) at a stage where it tends to swim with others in schools rather than stay to itself.
   • 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:
   • 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.
   • 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:
5. (informal) Synonym of school horse.
6. (New-York-City, slang) A public school meal, the school cafeteria food.
   • the schoolie mozzarella sticks are the best meal out of nyc lunch 2019 February 26, @eddy_ydd3, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 10 Jan 2026:
   • Who eats schoolie 😭 2018 June 17, @andyiism, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 10 Jan 2026:
   • Idk how the schoolie in Georgia is but nyc schoolie is a 5 star gourmet meal 2019 June 30, @mahmudashik48, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 10 Jan 2026:

Forms

Deriveds

schoolies week

Relateds

toolie

Synonyms

school horse · schoolie bass · leaver

Translations (16)

pl absolwentka (school-leaver) · ro absolvent (school-leaver) · pl absolwent (school-leaver) · de Schulabgänger (school-leaver) · cmn 畢業生 /毕业生 (school-leaver) · de Abiturient (school-leaver) · ja 学卒者 (school-leaver) · fr élève sortante (school-leaver) · ro absolventă (school-leaver) · ru выпускни́к (school-leaver) · de Abiturientin (school-leaver) · de Absolventin (school-leaver) · fr élève sortant (school-leaver) · ru выпускни́ца (school-leaver) · de Schulabgängerin (school-leaver) · de Absolvent (school-leaver)