Definitions for rookie

rookie rook·ie

Spelling: [roo k-ee]
IPA: /ˈrʊk i/

Rookie is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in rookie (eikoor).

Definitions for rookie

noun

  1. an athlete playing his or her first season as a member of a professional sports team:
  2. a raw recruit, as in the army or on a police force.
  3. a novice; tyro.

Origin of rookie

1890-95; alteration of recruit; see -y2

Examples for rookie

One of the rookie officers, Peter Liang, was walking with a flashlight in one hand and his gun in the other.

Then he was just a busher, a rookie, a nobody who had his reputation yet to win.

Yet I am convinced that what will best control the Plattsburg rookie is the Plattsburg non-com.

The Lion Air captain had left his rookie copilot to make the landing until he realized he was in trouble.

They castigated the captain, a 48-year-old Indonesian, and his rookie copilot, a 24-year-old Indian.

Is it allowable, Sergeant, for a rookie to ask what this is all about?

A 28-year-old gunned down in a dark, New York City hallway by a rookie cop who apparently made a fatal mistake.

Still, he was locked into his rookie contract, and had to ride out two more dysfunctional seasons of the show.

And he wasn't forgetting Keesey, the rookie who'd replaced him.

"rookie" is the term by which a new recruit is designated in Army slang.

Word Value for rookie
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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