schoolie
schoolie noun: a senior school student, especially a school-leaver, engaged in unsupervised celebrations during schoolies week.
Noun
schoolie (plural schoolies)
- 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...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
- Synonyms:
- leaver
- A schoolteacher.
- 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
- A juvenile gamefish (especially striped bass) at a stage where it tends to swim with others in schools rather than stay to itself.
- 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.1997 August, Lawrence Pine, Massachusetts′s Plymouth Rock Bass, Field & Stream, page 94
- 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
- Synonyms:
- schoolie bass
- Synonym of school horse.
- Synonyms:
- school horse
- 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
schoolie meaning in Tamil
schoolie in Tamil
- பள்ளிமாணவன்
Examples of schoolie in a sentence
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
Synonyms of schoolie
Forms of schoolie
| plural | schoolies |
|---|---|
| alternative form | schooly |
| alternative form | skoolie |
Origin of schoolie
From school + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
Words formed from schoolie
Phrases with schoolie
Words that rhyme with schoolie
Questions about schoolie
- What does schoolie mean?
- Schoolie means a senior school student, especially a school-leaver, engaged in unsupervised celebrations during schoolies week.
- What is schoolie in Tamil?
- Schoolie in Tamil is பள்ளிமாணவன். See Schoolie meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use schoolie in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is schoolie?
- Schoolie is a noun.
- What is the plural of schoolie?
- The plural of schoolie is schoolies.
Words near schoolie in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: schoolie (page history and authors); schoolie (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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