Sekirov Dictionary

rookie

/ˈɹʊki/

noun 4
verb 2
adjective 1
forms 5

noun4

An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.
A novice.
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.
(UK) A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks.

verb2

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To be a rookie; to go through one's inexperienced learning period in a job, team, or organization.
- In 1977 he rookied as a smokejumper with the International Forest Fire Systems, a private firm that contracted smokejumping services to Canada's Northwest Territories. — 2002
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To haze one or more rookies as an initiation ritual.
- Great was my surprise when I found that I had been "rookied" in for a policing-up detail with no chance to "allez." — 1919

adjective1

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Non-professional; amateur
- The game was going well until I made that rookie mistake.
- the rookiest of rookie mistakes

forms

rookied · rookying · rookies · rookier · rookiest

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