# rookie numbers

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. Low numbers or a small amount of something, especially seen as signaling one's inexperience or naïveté.

## Etymology
A reference to Matthew McConaughey's character Mark Hanna in the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street, who advises protagonist Jordan Belfort to masturbate more frequently: "You gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket."

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/rookie-numbers