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Noun: shavetail
Usage: N. Amer, informal
  1. Any new participant in some activity
    "The experienced climbers welcomed the shavetail to their mountaineering club";
    - newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman [N. Amer], newbie [informal], entrant, newb [non-standard], noob [non-standard], n00b [non-standard]

Derived forms: shavetails

Type of: beginner, initiate, novice, rookie [informal], tiro, tyro

Encyclopedia: Shavetail