Schoolie

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

(Australia) A senior school student, especially a school-leaver, engaged in unsupervised celebrations during schoolies week..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Australia) A senior school student, especially a school-leaver, engaged in unsupervised celebrations during schoolies week.
2. (Australia) A schoolteacher.
3. (UK, military) An education officer.
4. (US, fishing) A juvenile gamefish (especially striped bass) at a stage where it tends to swim with others in schools rather than stay to itself.
5. (equestrianism, informal) Synonym of school horse.
6. (New York City, slang) A public school meal, the school cafeteria food.

Example Sentences

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 information about forthcoming events.

Some of the locals prey on the Schoolies.

If staying in November or December, the place is filled with hundreds of schoolies.

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.

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.

1997 August, Lawrence Pine, Massachusetts′s Plymouth Rock Bass, Field & Stream, page 94, 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.

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.

Schoolies tend to concentrate inside harbors and along beaches, often moving far inside tidal creeks and salt ponds.

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• schoolies
• schooly
• skoolie

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