Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang An untrained or inexperienced recruit, as in the army or police.
- n. Slang An inexperienced person; a novice.
- n. Sports A first-year player, especially in a professional sport.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A recruit.
Wiktionary
- n. An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.
- n. A novice.
- n. An athlete either new to the sport or to a team or in his first year of professional competition, especially said of baseball, basketball, hockey and American football players.
- n. UK A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks.
- adj. non-professional; amateur
WordNet 3.0
- n. an awkward and inexperienced youth
Etymologies
- Perhaps alteration of recruit. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If the 28-year old PGA Tour rookie is able to hold off Lucas Glover and other challengers, he might rewrite some records in the book.”
“Posting a 3.83 ERA in less than half a season as a rookie is an impressive way to break into the major leagues.”
“We've seen a huge rise in what we call the rookie delinquent taxpayer," he said.”
“And yes, they have a potential franchise quarterback in rookie Matthew Stafford — and on this one, team officials are crossing their fingers.”
Turnaround under Stafford will take more than just a quick fix
“The 2009-10 rookie is one of 31 players invited to participate in the team's training camp July 19-24 in Las Vegas as the club begins preparations for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. —”
“Jennings started out hot last season and was a favorite to win rookie of the year after the first month before he suddenly hit the, um, wall.”
The Washington Post: Flip Saunders on John Wall's minutes, Al Thornton to start
“The second-highest ranked rookie is No. 2 overall pick Evan Turner, who is sixth at 32.7 minutes per game.”
The Washington Post: Flip Saunders on John Wall's minutes, Al Thornton to start
“Every rookie that come into the league should want to win rookie of the year.”
The Washington Post: John Wall wants playoffs over rookie of the year
“I don't want ... he shouldn't have to say, 'John is going to win rookie of the year; Blake Griffin is going to be rookie of the year.”
The Washington Post: John Wall wants playoffs over rookie of the year
“David Nelson might not get a ton of gameplay, but when the rookie is needed, he has shown he can deliver, making some critical late-game catches both this week and last.”
The Huffington Post: Alyssa Jung: Bills Suffer Another OT Loss
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rookie’.
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The weird, the wonderful and the plai...
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
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North American sports reporting
North American sports reporting seems to use vernacular to a much greater extent than its British equivalent. I think this is partly because of the stat-heavy nature of NA sports: reports would be ...
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SoSheShall's list
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Slang words of Irish origin according...
Compare the etymologies of these words as given in the OED with the Gaelic backgrounders in this book, How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads (Counterpunch, 2007). Awai...
smack, snazzy, pussy, geek, dork, dude, smudge, snap, slugger, slum, scam, slew and 102 more...
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Idioms or Phrases or "expressions"
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vivek's list
flibbertigibbet, droll, reticence, prelude, erinaceous, brinkmanship, depone, inaniloquent, limerance, pronk, onomatopoeia, oxymoron and 385 more...
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Brooklyns Finest (2009)
Words from a 2009 'Brooklyns Finest' film.
pier, pull over, bookie, gwap, precinct, larceny, stain, perp, commissioner, rookie, hairbag, seasoned and 9 more...
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people
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Retroliterals
Words having the letters in reverse alphabetically order. Only words of six or more letters are listed here. For alphabetical order see Alphaliterals. See uoiea and yuoiea for words and phrases wit...
jigged, ligged, miffed, pigged, polked, polled, pollee, pommie, ponged, pongee, ponied, poohed and 75 more...
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the reverse
polka, rookie, skied, skiff, sniff, solid, sonic, speed, spoke, sponge, spoof, spook and 8 more...
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Baby, You're a Firework
cherry bomb, whizbang, cannon cracker, ladyfinger, banger, cracker, ashcan, gerb, crow scarer, squib, squib-cracker, fizgig and 27 more...
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yarb "Habs happy with rookie goalie's play" - Vancouver Sun headline, 11-30-7 Jan 10, 2008