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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Playbook

Playbook \Play"book`\, n. A book of dramatic compositions; a book of the play.
--Swift.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
playbook

also play-book, 1530s, "book of stage plays," from play (n.) + book (n.). Meaning "Book of football plays" recorded from 1965.

Wiktionary
playbook

n. 1 A book containing the text of a play 2 A book of games and amusements for children 3 (context US English) A book of strategy (plays) for use in American football

WordNet
playbook
  1. n. 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"

Wikipedia
Playbook

Playbook may refer to:

  • BlackBerry PlayBook, a tablet computer by BlackBerry
  • A book that contains a script or story for a theatrical play. This written version of the composition is used in preparing for a performance
    • Fleury Playbook, a medieval playbook kept in a French abbey until the French Revolution
  • In sports, a book describing plays that a player or team may run in games
    • Basketball playbook
    • Football playbook
  • Playbook (TV series), a television show that airs on the NFL Network
  • The Playbook, a television show that aired on Spike TV
  • The Playbook (How I Met Your Mother), the title of an episode of the television show How I Met Your Mother
  • "Playbook", a daily feature of the political newspaper Politico, edited by Mike Allen
Playbook (TV series)

Playbook is an X's and O's football show with an entertaining flair. Playbook goes into the NFL Films room to examine a head coach's game film. In its original format, it was a 30-minute program hosted every weeknight during the NFL season and playoffs. In its new format, it is a one-hour program on Thursday and Friday, each day centering on either the AFC (Thursday) or the NFC (Friday).

Usage examples of "playbook".

Instead, on February 14, 2002, Secretary of State Colin Powell trotted out a line from the liberal playbook, telling an audience of teenagers on MTV to use condoms!

The Old Man was actually beginning to perfect some beautiful sucker moves for the playbook that involved the heavy weapons platoon.

As the playbook got firmed up it might be a little easier but in the meantime there were far more wrong mixes than right.

She lit one gas fixture, then flung the little playbook into the grate.

Saint sat so close that their thighs bumped, and he tugged the playbook over so half was across her knees and half across his.

Gulf of Tonkin seems right out of the Operation Northwoods playbook: "

The next day, he presented Coll with his wedding gift-a stack of playbooks printed out by his ship's computer, the best dramas, comedies, and tragedies that human playwrights had written since people learned to write.

You have to have everybody reading out of the same playbook, and everybody has to know what everybody else is able to do.