schoolie

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schoolie

Rhymes with -uːli

noun schoolies · schooly · skoolie

  1. Australia, countable, slang 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 informati

    Similar: leaver

  2. Australia, countable, slang A schoolteacher.
  3. UK, countable, slang 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.
  4. US, countable A juvenile gamefish (especially striped bass) at a stage where it tends to swim with others in schools rather than stay to itself. 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.

    Similar: schoolie bass

  5. countable, informal Synonym of school horse.

    Similar: school horse

  6. New York City, slang, uncountable A public school meal, the school cafeteria food. Idk how the schoolie in Georgia is but nyc schoolie is a 5 star gourmet meal

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noun school-leaver

日本語学卒者 gakusotsusha
中文畢業生 /毕业生 bìyèshēng
Françaisélève sortant, élève sortante
DeutschAbsolvent, Absolventin, Abiturient, Abiturientin, Schulabgänger, Schulabgängerin
Românăabsolvent, absolventă
Русскийвыпускни́к vypuskník, выпускни́ца vypuskníca

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@misc{schoolie_2026,
  title = {schoolie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/schoolie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}