"probie" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "probationary",
        "3": "ie"
      },
      "expansion": "probationary + -ie",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From probationary + -ie.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "probies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "probie (plural probies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "67 33",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "84 16",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ie",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "91 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 444:",
          "text": "He's no closer to carrying out the suggestion of the 3rd Step than the day the Probie drove him over to his halfway house from Peabody Holding.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone holding a position on a probationary basis, subject to performance or examination."
      ],
      "id": "en-probie-en-noun-~RTmi1Gm",
      "links": [
        [
          "probationary",
          "probationary"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Someone holding a position on a probationary basis, subject to performance or examination."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Firefighting",
          "orig": "en:Firefighting",
          "parents": [
            "Emergency services",
            "Fire",
            "Public safety",
            "Combustion",
            "Light sources",
            "Public administration",
            "Security",
            "Chemical processes",
            "Light",
            "Government",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "Energy",
            "Politics",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997. Steve Delson. \"The Fire Inside: Firefighters Talk About Their Lives\", Page 41",
          "text": "A probie never complains. A probie keeps his mouth shut, his eyes open. A probie is never idle. A probie is always learning or drilling or cleaning. That's why you're still called a probie: for one year after you leave training school."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A neophyte firefighter."
      ],
      "id": "en-probie-en-noun-MpD~5r0H",
      "links": [
        [
          "firefighting",
          "firefighting"
        ],
        [
          "neophyte",
          "neophyte"
        ],
        [
          "firefighter",
          "firefighter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, firefighting) A neophyte firefighter."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "firefighting",
        "government"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-probie.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-probie.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-probie.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-probie.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-probie.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "proby"
    }
  ],
  "word": "probie"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -ie",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "probationary",
        "3": "ie"
      },
      "expansion": "probationary + -ie",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From probationary + -ie.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "probies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "probie (plural probies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 444:",
          "text": "He's no closer to carrying out the suggestion of the 3rd Step than the day the Probie drove him over to his halfway house from Peabody Holding.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone holding a position on a probationary basis, subject to performance or examination."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "probationary",
          "probationary"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Someone holding a position on a probationary basis, subject to performance or examination."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "en:Firefighting"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997. Steve Delson. \"The Fire Inside: Firefighters Talk About Their Lives\", Page 41",
          "text": "A probie never complains. A probie keeps his mouth shut, his eyes open. A probie is never idle. A probie is always learning or drilling or cleaning. That's why you're still called a probie: for one year after you leave training school."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A neophyte firefighter."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "firefighting",
          "firefighting"
        ],
        [
          "neophyte",
          "neophyte"
        ],
        [
          "firefighter",
          "firefighter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, firefighting) A neophyte firefighter."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "firefighting",
        "government"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-probie.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-probie.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-probie.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3b/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-probie.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-probie.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "proby"
    }
  ],
  "word": "probie"
}