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
- middle name
- middleness
- middle night
- middle-of-the-road
- middle-of-the-roadism
- middle-of-the-roadness
- middle oil
- middle order
- middle passage
- middle path
- middle peasant
- middle period
- Middle Persian
- middle piece
- Middle Platonism
- Middle Platonist
- middle post
- middle power
- middle price
- middler
- middle rail
- middle-range
- middle rank
- middle-ranking
- middle relief