toolie

toolie
 n.— «“The big problem is the sleazy predators who try to take advantage of our kids—‘toolies,’ as the schoolies call them. “I don’t need to spell out that teenage girls are particularly vulnerable to these creeps.”» —“State Government to crack down on schoolies” in Brisbane AAP (Australia) May 11, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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