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say it: PLAY-buuk
playbook is a noun meaning "a notebook containing descriptions and diagrams of the plays that a team has practiced (especially an American football team)". It is pronounced /ˈpleɪbʊk/ — PLAY-buuk. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a notebook containing descriptions and diagrams of the plays that a team has practiced (especially an American football team)
a book containing the scripts of one or more dramatic plays
“the 1963 playbook leaves out the whole first scene”
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”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for playbook come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.