schoolie

1. (Australia) A senior school student, especially a school-leaver, engaged in unsupervised celebrations during schoolies week.Examples: "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."Synonyms: leaverAustralia

2. (Australia) A schoolteacher.Australia

3. (UK, military) An education officer.Examples: "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."UK

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.Examples: "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."US

5. (equestrianism, informal) Synonym of school horse.Synonyms: school horseinformal