toolieとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -uːli

名詞

toolie (plural toolies)

1. (colloquial, oil industry) A tool dresser.
   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 287:

     He and the geologist went to explore in the sandy Garcia pastures. The rig builder, toolie, and driller retired to the Colonel's porch to drink.

2. (Australia, slang) An adult reveller who deliberately travels to a destination where schoolies (senior students) congregate, often to solicit sex from them.
   • 2003 November 30, RMG, “ACA: Schoolies week UNCUT!!”, in aus.tv‎ (Usenet):

     Perhaps you should go next year as a "toolie", and you'll get to see for yourself.

   • 2005 November 30, Kelpie, “Schoolies kids - stupidity”, in aus.tv‎ (Usenet):

     Maybe they were toolies!

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:toolie.
3. (slang, US, MTE, MLE, and possibly wider) A gun.
   • 2020 July 2, “Stop Check”, Td of TPL (lyrics)‎:

     Rise that heater, tap that mash
     They don't come outside their flats
     Decamp, decamp, aim this toolie at your hat
     They piss us off on Snap, so we rise up and load them straps

アナグラム

• lootie, oolite, oölite