Rookie

//ˈɹʊki//

"Rookie" in a Sentence (21 examples)

The rookie breathed new life into the team.

Tom is a rookie.

I made a rookie mistake.

I'm a rookie.

In 1990, Dan was still a rookie officer under Matt Smith.

Frankly speaking, in that GP Vettel was driving like a rookie.

Tom isn't a rookie anymore.

Tom is still a rookie.

I'm not a rookie anymore.

I'm no longer a rookie.

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The game was going well until I made that rookie mistake.

the rookiest of rookie mistakes

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.

As they go ton the stretch of road that ran between the park and the 5 Freeway, Stu said 'Schoelkopf gave me the kind of lecture I haven't heard since I rookied. […]'

He rookied in 1980 and settled in to play right field for the Detroit Tigers from 1983 to 1987 and was critical to the Tigers winning the 1984 World Series against the San Diego Padres.

Grath and I had joined the Iron Bandits MC the same year; pledged together, rookied together.

Great was my surprise when I found that I had been "rookied" in for a policing-up detail with no chance to "allez."

There is none of that 'rookying stuff' but they don't pay any attention to you either, and that is worse.

I was rookied in women's (ice) hockey mid-winter. I was made to strip nude and walk into McDonald's and order a big Mac.

Last year when I was 'rookied' they had this whole agenda where you had to do a ' shot ' [ of alcohol ] and run around and do this little circuit [ race ] —the idea was to get everyone to puke that night or just get totally hammered ... the majority of the people [rookies] were knocked out [physically unable to continue] by ten o'clock.

As long as a player is a rookie, they are susceptible to being "rookied,” although initiations typically occur at the beginning of the season, or just before.

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