rookie

1. 1

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

   • Corbett is convinced it was a systemic failure: "The Thames Train was driven by a rookie driver who had only just come into the job. It is, in fact, difficult to run through a red light, because you have to cancel the Automatic Warning Syst
2. 2

   A novice.

3. 3

   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

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

syn. beginner · newbie · noob · tyro · novice

1. 1

   Non-professional; amateur

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

1. 1

   To be a rookie; to go through one's inexperienced learning period in a job, team, or organization.intransitive

   • 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. […]'
2. 2

   To haze one or more rookies as an initiation ritual.transitive

   • 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.