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playbook

play·book

UK/ˈpleɪ.bʊk/ US/ˈplebʉk/ uncommon us

noun

1.

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

2.

a book containg 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”

Origin

From play + book.

Phrases

  • rip a page out of someone's playbook
  • take a page out of someone's playbook

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