pubbie

English

Noun

pubbie (plural pubbies)

1. A student at a public school.
   • 2005, Paul Luchessa, A Spy at Harvard, →ISBN, page 6:

     Evan seemed older than everyone else, more mature than preppies and pubbies alike; his maturity attributable, perhaps, to the year he had spent at Harrow.

   • 2013, Ted Kosmatka, Prophet of Bones: A Novel, →ISBN, page 11:

     She didn't go to his school. He could tell by her long hair and dress that she went to Nearhaven. You could almost always tell Nearhaven kids that way. Just as they could tell the pubbies.

   • 2016, Penn Brooks, Diary of a Private School Kid:

     Both pubbies and cathies looked on with stunned faces as the lowly “egg-boy” picked a fight with one of the cool kids.

2. (gaming) A random member of the general public.
   • 2012 September 13, Dave Thier, “A Look at The Diplomatic Skills of Sean Smith, AKA 'Vile Rat'”, in Forbes:

     We are all from an outside place with a distinct culture and an almost xenophobic dislike of "pubbies" being public players not from our joint background.

   • 2015 May 13, Jonathan M. Gitlin, “Project CARS review: The detailed simulation virtual gearheads deserve”, in Ars Technica:

     The AI is decent, too; there are none of the "pubbie on Red Bull" first corner antics of Forza's Drivatars, nor the “I'm sticking to this line like I'm a train” automata of GT.

   • 2017 May 23, Steven Messner, “How an EVE Online con artist tricked a ruthless pirate into giving him his priceless ship”, in PC Gamer:

     A month later, and Samantha reached the inner circle of Amamake Police by providing intel that was instrumental in bringing down a rival's AT ship—a staggering 130 billion ISK loss. “From that point I was no longer just a random pubbie, I was a King Of Lamaa, an Officer of the Amamake PD,” Samantha writes.

   • 2018 March 16, Cameron Kunzelman, “PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Doesn't Know Who It's For”, in Paste Magazine:

     There will just be an implicit split between esports players and “pubbie” players.

3. A visit to the local pub.
   • 1969, Pigeon Racing News and Gazette - Volume 25, page 30:

     The worthy winner soon discovered, I may add, and the subject of many "side-bets" in the "pubbie" was Old Hand George Robbie's good Red Cock bred out of the continental stuff.

   • 1993, John Morris, Exploring Stereotyped Images in Victorian and Twentieth-century Literature and Society, →ISBN, page 16:

     'Shall we go home Fido? No? O.K. we'll stay' and 'Walkies,' says the husband to the dog. 'No, pubbies,' says the wife; Disorientation from Non-Pub World ('Am I still here, barman, or have I gone home?')

   • 2013, Colin Ward, Armed for the Match, →ISBN:

     On the video he stated that the lads met in 'pubbies'. He meant pubs.

4. Someone that one socializes with at the pub.
   • 2010, Hans Fallada, Alone in Berlin, →ISBN:

     Met him at the bud... drinking pubbies... at the Also Ran.

   • 2015, C.S.E. Cooney, Bone Swans: Stories, page 143:

     In a fit of drunkenness, Da had slobbered out the sort of rumor our own local pubbies wouldn't half heed, chin-drowned in gin as they were.