plebe
- n a military trainee (as at a military academy)
- Instead of requiring the traditional gibberish reply to the upperclassman's question, "How is the cow?" a plebe may be ordered at dinner to deliver a ten-minute lecture on Viet .
- The President, who once coached the plebe team, grinned broadly when Army hung onto a 12-7 lead until the final whistle.
- At the end of his plebe year, he ranked 35th; (when he was appointed Chief of Staff in 1939.