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toolie en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From tool + -ie.

Meanings

1. (colloquial, qualifier:oil industry) A tool dresser.
   • He and the geologist went to explore in the sandy Garcia pastures. The rig builder, toolie, and driller retired to the Colonel's porch to drink. 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 287:
2. (Australia, slang) An adult reveller who deliberately travels to a destination where schoolies (senior students) congregate, often to solicit sex from them.
   • Maybe they were toolies! 2005 November 30, Kelpie, “Schoolies kids - stupidity”, in aus.tv (Usenet):
   • Perhaps you should go next year as a "toolie", and you'll get to see for yourself. 2003 November 30, RMG, “ACA: Schoolies week UNCUT!!”, in aus.tv (Usenet):
3. (Multicultural-London-English, US, qualifier:and possibly wider, slang) A gun.
   • Rise that heater, tap that mash They don't come outside their flats Decamp, decamp, aim this toolie at your hat They piss us off on Snap, so we rise up and load them straps 2020 July 2, “Stop Check”, Td of TPL (lyrics):

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