playbook

noun

1. a notebook containing descriptions and diagrams of the plays that a team has practiced (especially an American football team)

• Hypernyms: ↑notebook

2. a book containing the scripts of one or more dramatic plays

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the 1963 playbook leaves out the whole first scene

• Hypernyms: ↑book

3. a scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign

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they borrowed a page from the playbook of the opposition

• Hypernyms: ↑scheme, ↑strategy

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I. \\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun

: one or more plays in book form

II. noun

: a notebook containing diagramed football plays

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/play"book'/, n.

1. (in Elizabethan drama) the script of a play, used by the actors as an acting text.

2. a book containing the scripts of one or more plays.

3. Football. a notebook containing descriptions of all the plays and strategies used by a team, often accompanied by diagrams, issued to players for them to study and memorize before the season begins.

4. Informal. any plan or set of strategies, as for outlining a campaign in business or politics.

[1525-35; PLAY + BOOK]

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playˈbook noun

A printed play or book of plays

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Main Entry: ↑play