Rookie

Quick meaning: Rookie is a noun meaning An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.

Meaning

An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.

More Meanings

1. A novice.
2. (British) A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks.
3. Non-professional; amateur
4. (intransitive) To be a rookie; to go through one's inexperienced learning period in a job, team, or organization.
5. (transitive, chiefly sports) To haze one or more rookies as an initiation ritual.
6. An athlete either new to the sport or to a team or in his/her first year of professional competition, especially said of baseball, basketball, hockey and American football players.

Example Sentences

the rookiest of rookie mistakes

The game was going well until I made that rookie mistake.

Grath and I had joined the Iron Bandits MC the same year; pledged together, rookied together.

Great was my surprise when I found that I had been "rookied" in for a policing-up detail with no chance to "allez."

Word Forms

• rookies
• rookier
• rookiest
• rookying
• rookied

Synonyms for rookie

Depending on context, synonyms include beginner, newbie, noob, tyro, novice, cub.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include greenhorn, cub, tenderfoot, novice, beginner, newcomer.

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