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play-book|ˈpleɪbʊk|
Also without hyphen, as one word, or two.
[f. play n. + book n. 3.]
1. A book of plays or dramatic compositions.
1535Cov. Corp. Chr. Plays App. ii. 107 Payd for makyng of the playe-boke vs. 1624Massinger Parl. Love ii. iii, Comparing of these eyes to the fairest flowers,..And such hyperboles stolen out of playbooks. 1727Gay Begg. Op. i. x, Those cursed Play-books she reads have been her ruin. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Aristocr. Wks. (Bohn) II. 80 'Tis an old sneer, that the Irish peerage drew their names from playbooks.
2. A book of games and pastimes for children.
1694(title) A play-book for children. 1761A. Barclay (title) Tom Thumb's play book. 1886(title) The golden playbook.
3. Football. A book containing various strategies and systems of play. U.S.
1967Time 6 Jan. 64 On the field, Plimpton did the calisthenics and learned the playbook cold, but when the test came during an intra-squad scrimmage before a large crowd,..every play was botched. 1969Sunday Times 28 Sept. 22 They spend most of their time watching films of their next opponents or studying the ‘play-book’ which sets out the dozens of moves they have to learn before the next match. 1972J. Mosedale Football v. 57 He absorbed the fundamentals..out of a playbook more than 300 pages long. |