Definition of Rookies

1. Noun. (plural of rookie) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rookies

1. rookie [n] - See also: rookie

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rookies

roofward
roofy
rooibos
rooigras
rooikat
rooinek
rooineks
rook
rooke
rooked
rookeries
rookery
rookie
rookielike
rookier
rookies (current term)
rookiest
rooking
rookish
rooklike
rooks
rooky
roolie
room
room-temperature
room access
room and board
room clerk
room decorator
room for a pony

Literary usage of Rookies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Historic Incidents and Life in India by Caleb Wright, J. A. Brainerd (1863)
"The tradition of the rookies respecting their origin is, that they and the ... The Mugs, they say, are the descendants of the eldest, and the rookies of the ..."

2. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
""THE MEN THAT FOUGHT AT MINDEN" A SONG OF INSTRUCTION THE men that fought at Minden, they was rookies in their time— So was them that fought at Waterloo! ..."

3. A Poet of the Air: Letters of Jack Morris Wright, First Lieutenant of the by Jack Morris Wright (1918)
"I enclose a picture of my "rookies" suit that I'll be wearing the next few months while I 'm in the learning. Afterwards, I'll have an officer's garb, ..."

4. Journal of the Society of Arts by Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1854)
"... being paid to tho importance of preventing the acquirement or undue or undeserved credit, or giving encouragement to ignorant or rookies speculation. ..."

5. Kitchener's Mob: The Adventures of an American in the British Army by James Norman Hall (1916)
"... CHAPTER II rookies "A MOB " is genuinely descriptive of the array of would-be soldiers which crowded the long parade-ground at Hounslow Barracks during ..."

6. Kitchener's Mob: The Adventures of an American in the British Army by James Norman Hall (1916)
"... CHAPTER II rookies "A MOB" is genuinely descriptive of the array of would-be soldiers which crowded the long parade-ground at Hounslow Barracks during ..."

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