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schoolies week

noun

Etymology

From schoolie + week. The festival originated from informal parties held at beach houses on the Gold Coast in Queensland, around 1975-78.

Definitions

  1. A festival during which finishing high school students celebrate the end of their…

    A festival during which finishing high school students celebrate the end of their studies, and the newfound freedom that follows.

    • Under official management schoolies week emerges almost as another kind of Gold Coast theme park; a place to go ‘wild’ safely.
    • Traditionally there are separate Schoolies Weeks for Queensland and New South Wales/Victorian Year 12s on the Gold Coast, so that at each one, students party with their peers.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of schoolies week

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA