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Definition of playbook
1 : one or more plays in book form
2 : a notebook containing diagrammed football plays
3 : a stock of usual tactics or methods straight from his opponent's political playbook
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Examples of playbook in a Sentence
He studied the new plays in the team's playbook.
Recent Examples of playbook from the Web
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Essentially structured as an old-school Hollywood Western epic right out of the John Ford playbook, Caesar and his small posse of payback-seeking apes ride on horseback (those poor horses!) across the snowy Sierra mountains.
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But the heartbreaking opening monologue delivered beneath an ornate mask feels especially ripped from the Gaga playbook.
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The space is empty of belongings, except for jars of peanut butter and jelly, a package of Ritz crackers, clothes and a playbook.
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The hip-hop artist apparently took a page from the Dr. Evil playbook during his ownership.
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The Pacers identified Leaf during the predraft evaluation process as an intelligent player who is capable of grasping every aspect of a team’s playbook.
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Problems ranged from injuries to learning the playbook to off-field behavior to effort and attitude.
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In the July/August cover story of The Atlantic, Mark Bowden outlines a playbook for dealing with North Korea, but warns that none of the options are pretty.
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Tough Guy In the fall of 2014, as more and more Cosby accusers surfaced, the Marty Singer playbook was on full display.
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First Known Use of playbook
1511
PLAYBOOK Defined for English Language Learners
playbook
play
noun
Definition of playbook for English Language Learners
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American football : a book that contains descriptions of the different offensive and defensive plays that are used by a team
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