Schoolie

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːli

Origin

From school + -ie("diminutive suffix").

Alternative forms

• Schoolie
• schooly

Full definition of schoolie

Noun

1. (Australia) A senior school student, especially a school-leaver, engaged in unsupervised celebrations during schoolies week.
• 1996, John Cotterell, Social Networks and Social Influences in Adolescence, %22schoolies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=QccijIcPqf&sig=jEg5DW3Pgt9yyK-ibT4nTEMYOLs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9Ck2UPmpEcGnqgGwvIGoDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22schoolie%22|%22schoolies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 176,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.
• 2007, John Chalmers, Byron Bay Taxis and Lunacies, %22schoolies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=ZOX18P4yQ4&sig=dpMOa3cyZBFRALLslkeutuwuPqE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9Ck2UPmpEcGnqgGwvIGoDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22schoolie%22|%22schoolies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 78,Some of the locals prey on the Schoolies.
• 2009, Justine Vaisutis, Australia, Lonely Planet, %22schoolies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=LEsSEPPrvH&sig=Pfe7vhQ2Zt3f8baBMZKz1Ut8lc4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9Ck2UPmpEcGnqgGwvIGoDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22schoolie%22|%22schoolies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 338,If staying in November or December, the place is filled with hundreds of schoolies.
• 2010, Garry Disher, Blood Moon, %22schoolies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=f-HFSGOkVI&sig=-UPD4Nw1YjICSaFSIX1mrdE6OZg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9Ck2UPmpEcGnqgGwvIGoDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22schoolie%22|%22schoolies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 17,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.
2. (Australia) A schoolteacher.
3. (UK, military) An education officer.
• 2008, John H. Dunning, Seasons of a Scholar: Some Personal Reflections of an International Business Economist, %22schoolies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=hWCVIuPySo&sig=drmlVNJvhiXNBe19y-udqgf1pJc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9Ck2UPmpEcGnqgGwvIGoDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22schoolie%22|%22schoolies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 46,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) A bass that swims in a school.
• 1997 August, Lawrence Pine, Massachusetts′s Plymouth Rock Bass, Field & Stream, %22schoolies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=c_AOngIRgz&sig=UF-zf2-VzkC434707X0J-FpMhTw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9Ck2UPmpEcGnqgGwvIGoDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22schoolie%22|%22schoolies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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.
• 2003, Larry Larsen, Amazon Peacock Bass Fishing: Top Tactics for Top Locations, %22schoolies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=kI6HhDWMGn&sig=rDjIbCOGDa9_CKtAismQRn01vCI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9Ck2UPmpEcGnqgGwvIGoDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22schoolie%22|%22schoolies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 150,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.
• 2009, Tom Rosenbauer, Nick Lyons, The Orvis Guide to Beginning Fly Fishing: 101 Tips for the Absolute Beginner, %22schoolies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=zc6Q7d78LQ&sig=sVuUF0BCc2OtEqU5y9TUTv-wm6s&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9Ck2UPmpEcGnqgGwvIGoDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22schoolie%22|%22schoolies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 88,Schoolies tend to concentrate inside harbors and along beaches, often moving far inside tidal creeks and salt ponds.

Synonyms

• (senior school student attending school-leaving celebrations) leaver Western Australia
• (schoolteacher)
• (education officer)
• (bass that swims in a school) schoolie bass

Derived terms

• schoolies week