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schoolies

schoolies is the clipping of schoolies week.

schoolies is the plural of schoolie.

Meaning of schoolies week

Noun

schoolies week (plural schoolies weeks)

  1. (Australia) A festival during which finishing high school students celebrate the end of their studies, and the newfound freedom that follows.
    • Under official management schoolies week emerges almost as another kind of Gold Coast theme park; a place to go ‘wild’ safely.1999, Colin Symes, Daphne Meadmore, The Extra-Ordinary School: Parergonality & Pedagogy, page 203

Meaning of schoolie

Noun

schoolie (plural schoolies)

  1. (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...1996, John Cotterell, Social Networks and Social Influences in Adolescence, page 176
    Synonyms:
    leaver
  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.
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    schoolie bass
  5. (informal) Synonym of school horse.
    Synonyms:
    school horse
  6. (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

Phrases with schoolies

Questions about schoolies

What is schoolies the clipping of?
Schoolies is the clipping of schoolies week.

Words near schoolies in the dictionary

  1. schoolgrounds
  2. schoolhouse
  3. schoolhouses
  4. schoolie
  5. schoolie bass
  6. schoolies
  7. schoolies week
  8. schoolies weeks
  9. schoolies' week
  10. schoolin'
  11. schooling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: schoolies (page history and authors); schoolies week (page history and authors); schoolie (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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