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rookie
noun- a raw recruit, especially a new recruit in the army or police UK, 1892
Probably a perversion of “recruit”. - [Jeff Crawford] pioneered the Met’s host-family initiative to billet rookie police and prison officers with non-white families. — The Guardian, 10 January 2004
- a novice at a sport; a player in his or her first year with a particular team US, 1913
From the wider sense as a “recruit”. - [D]efenseman Barret Jackman, our rookie of the year, did a magnificent job of filling some awfully big skates on the Blues’ top blue line. — Hockey Digest, Summer 2003
- a college freshman US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 6, March 1979
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