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playbook

/ˈpleɪ.bʊk/noun2 syllables

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

Synonyms for playbook5

also used for playbook

play, gamebook, toolkit, cookbook, run book

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What does playbook mean?3

noun

1

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

2

a book containing the scripts of one or more dramatic plays“the 1963 playbook leaves out the whole first scene”

3

a scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign“they borrowed a page from the playbook of the opposition”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Playbook in a sentence

  • The coach's playbook had more running plays than last week's game.Eccles17
  • Are you surprised that Tom told her he loved her then dumped her? That's his playbook.JHR

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Forms of playbook

as a noun

plural
playbooks