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SHOOBIE
Definition of SHOOBIE
noun
A visitor to a coastal area who looks or acts out of place; especially an awkward or annoying tourist.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Likely from shoe in some way, if not a clipping of shoebox, with diminutive -ie. Other hypotheses appear unconvincing. Compare Benny (“northern or out-of-state tourist to the Jersey Shore”), or terms like touron and yuppie. The popular legend states that the term is attested from circa late 1800s, where new railroads to the Jersey Shore brought in floods of tourists to the beaches, who often carried their own lunches (rather than dined at seaside restaurants), packed by the trains in a shoebox. These tourists were then stereotyped for their habits, and the sense widened.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, SHOOBIE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SHOOBIE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 146, 13 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 146, 13 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SHOOBIE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BEHIOOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Could you have found SHOOBIE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 146 - and most players walked straight past it.
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