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)
- 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
- 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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- Rookied is the simple past and past participle of rookie.
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