toolie

Noun

toolie (plural toolies)

1. (colloquial, 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.
   • 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)
   • Maybe they were toolies!2005 November 30, Kelpie, “Schoolies kids - stupidity”, in aus.tv (Usenet)
3. (Multicultural-London-English, US, slang, and possibly wider) 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 straps2020 July 2, “Stop Check”, Td of TPL (lyrics)