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toolies

toolies is the plural of toolie.

Meaning of 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)
  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)

Questions about toolies

What is toolies the plural of?
Toolies is the plural of toolie.

Words near toolies in the dictionary

  1. toolholders
  2. toolholding
  3. toolhouse
  4. toolhouses
  5. toolie
  6. toolies
  7. Toolijooa
  8. Toolik
  9. Toolik Field Station
  10. tooling
  11. tooling around

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