playbook
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- noun
- /ˈpleɪbʊk/
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libreto
- As they reviewed the playbook, the cast began to understand the emotional depth of the characters.
Examples
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The Steelers quarterback sits behind his desk, a pair of reading glasses on the tip of his famous nose, the playbook for Sunday night's showdown with the Bengals on his lap, his lips moving in time with his mental reps.
Blog text (3) -
For a while, it became my daily occupation to open all the playbooks and study them.
Fiction book (2002) -
One of the playbooks lay inside the fender and was entitled "Love's Labour Lost."
Blog text (7) -
And so, my solitary perusal of the playbooks continued for a long time.
Fiction book (2002) -
The director handed out the playbook so that all the actors could familiarize themselves with their lines.
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Every new production starts with a fresh playbook that details the scenes and dialogues for the actors.
Synonyms
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A set of written or printed pages bound together with a cover
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Morphology
Etymology
Playbook comes from the words play ('a drama or stage story') and book ('a collection of pages'), so it was originally a book with the scripts actors use.