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How to pronounce “rookie”

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Pronunciation guide for rookie

Learning goal
Practice the English pronunciation of rookie with real speech in context.
Available examples
8 YouTube examples
Real speech example
Tavi Gevinson: 青少年探索进行时 7 minutes, 28 secondsI started a fashion blog called Style Rookie.
Definition summary
An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.

Example 1 of 8

How to pronounce rookie

Tavi Gevinson: 青少年探索进行时 7 minutes, 28 seconds

I started a fashion blog called Style Rookie.

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “rookie”

Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.
  • A novice.
  • 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.
  • (British) A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks.
  • [Adjective]
  • Non-professional; amateur
  • [Verb]
  • (intransitive) To be a rookie; to go through one's inexperienced learning period in a job, team, or organization.
  • (transitive, chiefly sports) To haze one or more rookies as an initiation ritual.

Practice Nearby Words

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