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rookie

noun
/ˈɹʊki/

Etymology

Thought to be an alteration of recruit + -ie, or from rook (“a cheat”) + -ie. Another possible origin is Dutch broekie (short for broekvent (“a boy still in short trousers”)), a common term for a shipmate. Also suggested is Irish rúca (“an inexperienced person”).

  1. derived from rúca

Definitions

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

  2. A novice.

  3. An athlete either new to the sport or to a team or in his/her first year of professional…

    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.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks.

    2. Non-professional

      Non-professional; amateur

      • The game was going well until I made that rookie mistake.
      • the rookiest of rookie mistakes

    3. To be a rookie

      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.
      • As they go ton the stretch of road that ran between the park and the 5 Freeway, Stu said 'Schoelkopf gave me the kind of lecture I haven't heard since I rookied. […]'
      • He rookied in 1980 and settled in to play right field for the Detroit Tigers from 1983 to 1987 and was critical to the Tigers winning the 1984 World Series against the San Diego Padres.

    4. 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."
      • There is none of that 'rookying stuff' but they don't pay any attention to you either, and that is worse.
      • I was rookied in women's (ice) hockey mid-winter. I was made to strip nude and walk into McDonald's and order a big Mac.

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Derived

cookee, rookie card, rookielike, rookie numbers

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rookie. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA