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rookied

rookied is the simple past and past participle of rookie.

Meaning of rookie

Verb

rookie (third-person singular simple present rookies, present participle rookying, simple past and past participle rookied)

  1. (intransitive) To be a rookie; to go through one's inexperienced learning period in a job, team, or organization.
    • In 1977 he rookied as a smokejumper with the International Forest Fire Systems, a private firm that contracted smokejumping services to Canada's Northwest Territories.2002, Smokejumpers, page 67
  2. (transitive) To haze one or more rookies as an initiation ritual.
    • Great was my surprise when I found that I had been "rookied" in for a policing-up detail with no chance to "allez."1919, Harold C. Bloxham, “Training at La Courtine”, in The History of Battery E, 66th Artillery C. A. C., page 86

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Questions about rookied

What is rookied the simple past and past participle of?
Rookied is the simple past and past participle of rookie.

Words near rookied in the dictionary

  1. Rookhurst
  2. rookie
  3. rookie card
  4. rookie cards
  5. rookie numbers
  6. rookied
  7. rookielike
  8. rookier
  9. rookies
  10. rookiest
  11. rooking

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