Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a student.

1906		Guilelmensian (Williams Coll.) 253: A Littrle Tragedy. Being the Story of the Stude who left College.
1912		Cornhusker in DN IV:ii 121: Sterilized water for the studes. Typhoid fever epidemic at its height.
1920		Ade Hand-made Fables 45: Every morning the faithful Stude would analyze the Form-Sheet and go back into History until he had a Line on the Performance of every Goat from the cradle up.
1935		J. Conroy World to Win 126: The ‘urge’ is the kind that impels [...] the studes here to go down by the abandoned ice house for a rendezvous with some of the beauteous Negro maidens.

2. a Studebaker automobile.

1959		H. Ellison ‘No Game for Children’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 81: He crouched down behind his Stude.
1978		R. De Christoforo Grease 98: Let’s take a spin in the Stude.
2018		T. Pluck ‘Hot Rod Heart’ in Life During Wartime 95: Karen smiled and patted the Stude’s roof.