schoolie

Meaning

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

Etymology

From school + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

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