playbook

1. 1.

   a notebook containing descriptions and diagrams of the plays that a team has practiced (especially an American football team)

   Broadernotebook
2. 2.

   a book containing the scripts of one or more dramatic plays

   “the 1963 playbook leaves out the whole first scene”

   Broaderbook
3. 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”

   Broaderscheme

Other forms of playbook

plural

playbooks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about playbook

What does playbook mean?

playbook means "a notebook containing descriptions and diagrams of the plays that a team has practiced (especially an American football team)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in playbook?

playbook has 2 syllables: play-book. The stress falls on "play". In IPA it is /ˈpleɪbʊk/.

Is playbook a common word?

playbook is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.