plebe
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- noun
- /pliːb/
- Jargon
- During the plebe year at the academy, new students learn the basic rules and traditions.
- plebes and seniors
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Watch on YouTubeIt was a very simple and very elementary like first year plebe flanking move.
- It was a very simple and very elementary like first year plebe flanking move.
- But I remember I, it was the, it was the spring of my freshman year, plebe year at the Academy.
- You want to be able to give to the plebes.
Examples
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You just completed your plebe year.
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The required time for plebes is five minutes.
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But this year, your plebe year, you will know failure.
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Made it through plebe year if I could see my home every day.
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That plebe year, it's a tough time.
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Breaking in a new plebe.
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The lecture below was delivered to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West Point in October of last year.
Academic text (2010) -
I will see you tomorrow, Plebe Huard.
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A company is only as strong as its weakest plebe.
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Summer after plebe year, me, Roy and Dickie went up to visit Roy's uncle, up in the Great Lakes.
Synonyms
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A young person training to become an officer in the armed forces
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A person who recently joined the military and is doing basic training
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A first-year cadet at a military academy, especially at the U.S. Air Force Academy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Plebe comes from the Latin plebs, meaning 'common people', and is the same root as plebeian and the informal pleb. So, at military schools a plebe is a first-year student, a 'newcomer' who starts low in the group's rank.