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Definition of Rookies
1. rookie [n] - See also: rookie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rookies
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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