noun (informal)
1 (especially AmE) a person who has just started a job or an activity and has very little experience:
a rookie police officer
2 (AmE) a member of a sports team in his or her first full year of playing that sport
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for rookie is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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