🎒 A schoolchild 🐟 A young fish 🎉 A graduating student

schoolie

9.9

A student who celebrates finishing high school with friends, often at the beach

noun

Australian

: graduado

Every year, thousands of schoolies flock to popular destinations to enjoy organized festivities after finishing high school.

Examples

At the beach party, the schoolie danced joyfully with friends to celebrate their graduation.
As a schoolie, she felt a mix of excitement and nostalgia as she celebrated the end of an important chapter in her life.
- What do you think I am, the bloody schoolie servant?

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
- It ain't up to that fucking schoolie to make any offer.

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
- It was bloody old Mrs. Newby and the girls and their fucking schoolie.

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
You bloody know you'd just as soon to not get yoked with that high-hat schoolie.

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)

Synonyms

matie

vsschoolie

South African

1 9.9

A student in the last year of high school in South Africa

is about a student who celebrates finishing school with organized friend events

Surface Forms

schoolie singular

schoolies plural

Morphology

schoolie = school (semi-transparent) = school + ie

While formed from 'school' + '-ie', the specific cultural sense (participants in end-of-school celebrations, esp. Australian) is colloquial and culturally specific and may not be inferred by all learners.

Etymology

Schoolie comes from school plus the friendly ending -ie, and in Australia the word grew to mean students who celebrate after finishing high school. So schoolies are the young people who gather to mark graduation and the end of school.