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According to people in the Old West, what’s a greenhorn?

Retry Correct Incorrect Although “greenhorn” would eventually come to mean someone who is inexperienced at their job, Voice Of America News outlined the term as originally describing people who tried to make lives for themselves out west after leaving major cities on the East Coast. Those city environs ill-prepared them for life in a more rustic part of the country.

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According to people in the Old West, what’s a greenhorn?

• A rookie who doesn’t understand the tricks of the trade
• Someone scatter-brained who rustlers could get an easy jump on
• Someone moving out west from a big, eastern city
• A derogatory term for recent immigrants into the United States