noun. undefined

noun. An untrained or inexperienced recruit, as in the army or police.

noun. An inexperienced person; a novice.

noun. A first-year player, especially in a professional sport.

noun. A recruit.

noun. An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.

noun. A novice.

noun. An athlete either new to the sport or to a team or in his first year of professional competition, especially said of baseball, basketball, hockey and American football players.

noun. A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks.

adjective. non-professional; amateur

noun. an awkward and inexperienced youth

"If the 28-year old PGA Tour rookie is able to hold off Lucas Glover and other challengers, he might rewrite some records in the book."

naive  rooky  

beginner  initiate  novice  tiro  tyro  

Cookie  bookie  cookie  hooky  

full-time  junior  longtime  off-duty  plainclothes  

abecedarian  alphabetarian  apprentice  arriviste  articled clerk