What is a "plebe" ?

[Maestro]

Greetings ladies and gentlemen.

I bought a game recently, it was the only one missing from my Wing Commander saga. In it, your character gets treated multiple times of "plebe" throughout the game.

From what I can guess, it could be Navy slang to designate a rookie pilot as well as somebody who isn't very smart... It's rather unclear. Anybody know what "plebe" means ? I've Googled it and what I found was refering "pleb" (note the missing "e") to the population of the Roman Empire. I don't really see the link with a fighter pilot.

I've ripped (and compressed) a video from the first CD to help you understand my point.

[cougar32d]

the only time i've ever heard the word "plebe" is a freshman at one of the u.s. military academy's

[Graeme]

Gentlemen, this is why God gave us dictionaries- (sl)plebeian, a person of lower class[abbr.]

[k9kiwi]

We invented dictionaries.

He gave us the capacity.

[mkloby]

Originally Posted by cougar32d

the only time i've ever heard the word "plebe" is a freshman at one of the u.s. military academy's

That's the only time I've ever heard of it. Rookies are sometimes called nuggets.

[Maestro]

Thanks for the replies... I did look in my English-French dictionary to get a synonyme, but like all good English-French dictionary, it is incomplete.

But now I know what "plebe" means, thanks.

[trackend]

Over here its basically a knob or pea brain

[Graeme]

And what aircraft would you train a Plebe in?

Why the Temco Model 33 PLEBE trainer of course! (Of 1953)

Shot at 2007-06-27

[Wildcat]

[Maestro]

[Maharg]