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A student at a public school.
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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.
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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.
Both pubbies and cathies looked on with stunned faces as the lowly “egg-boy” picked a fight with one of the cool kids.
A random member of the general public.
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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.
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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.
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.
There will just be an implicit split between esports players and “pubbie” players.
A visit to the local pub.
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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.
'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?')
On the video he stated that the lads met in 'pubbies'. He meant pubs.
Someone that one socializes with at the pub.
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Met him at the bud... drinking pubbies... at the Also Ran.
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.