rookies

Noun

rookie (plural rookies)

1. An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.
   • Corbett is convinced it was a systemic failure: "The Thames Train was driven by a rookie driver who had only just come into the job. It is, in fact, difficult to run through a red light, because you have to cancel the Automatic Warning System (AWS) and so on. But he continued for 700 yards and he...2026 March 4, Christian Wolmar, “Railtrack: what really happened”, in RAIL, number 1056, page 53
2. A novice.
3. An athlete either new to the sport or to a team or in his/her first year of professional competition, especially said of baseball, basketball, hockey and American football players.
4. (UK) A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks.

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