rookie
/ˈrʊki
/noun informal
1A new recruit, especially in the army or police: [as modifier]: a rookie cop...
- Even a rookie police officer could see he was involved with the other assassins.
- We were presented with NYPD sleeve patches, shown around the police museum, visited the Police Academy where rookies were trained, and shown their incident vehicles.
- Tracking down a horrifying killer, a rookie cop discovers what it is like for the hunter to become the hunted.
1.1A member of a sports team in their first full season.Naturally, he is adept at organizing hockey camps and schools - an invaluable skill to have for a coach of a team that featured 12 rookies this season....
- Many of our team members were rookies, myself included.
- Although many of the current players are former athletes, others are rookies not only to football but to sports in general.
Origin
Late 19th century: perhaps an alteration of recruit, influenced by rook1.
Rhymes
- germ-free
- germicidal
- germicide
- germiculture
- germiduct
- germigen
- germigene
- germinability
- germinal
- germinal cell
- germinal center
- germinal centre
- germinal disc
- germinal disk
- germinal epithelium
- germinal layer
- germinally
- germinal membrane
- germinal spot
- germinal vesicle
- germinant
- germinate
- germination
- germinative
- germinator