schoolies week
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.68 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A festival during which finishing high school students celebrate the end of their studies, and the newfound freedom that follows.
Australian usage
noun
Alternative letter-case form of schoolies week
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "In her opinion piece published in The Bugle on April 7 this year, Michele Bailey enthusiastically discusses the growing trend of alternative activities to the traditional schoolies week in Queensland, namely working with charitable missions in Australia and developing countries."
- "Blurred focuses on characters travelling to the annual end of secondary school rite of passage in Australia, Schoolies Week on the Gold Coast, in this local variant of the teen pic."
- "In other words, it′s the approach of that great Australian contribution to Western civilisation: schoolies week."
Etymology
From schoolie + week. The festival originated from informal parties held at beach houses on the Gold Coast in Queensland, around 1975-78.