playbook

Other forms: playbooks

Definitions of playbook
  1. noun
    a book containing the scripts of one or more dramatic plays
    “the 1963 playbook leaves out the whole first scene”
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    type of:
    book
    a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together)
  2. noun
    a notebook containing descriptions and diagrams of the plays that a team has practiced (especially an American football team)
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    notebook
    a book with blank pages for recording notes or memoranda
  3. noun
    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”
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    type of:
    scheme, strategy
    an elaborate and systematic plan of action
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