Playbook

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Playbook \Play"book`\, n.
     A book of dramatic compositions; a book of the play. --Swift.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  playbook
       n 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"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "playbook":
     best seller, book, bound book, classic, coloring book, continuity,
     cue, definitive work, folio, great work, hardback, juvenile,
     juvenile book, libretto, limp-cover book, lines, magnum opus,
     nonbook, notebook, novel, opus, opuscule, opusculum, paperback,
     picture book, pocket book, prayer book, production, psalmbook,
     psalter, publication, scenario, scene plot, score, script, serial,
     shooting script, side, sketchbook, soft-cover, songbook,
     standard work, storybook, text, title, tome, trade book, volume,
     work, writing