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" a book containg the scripts of one or more dramatic plays; "the 1963 playbook leaves out the whole first scene" a notebook containing descriptions and diagrams of the plays that a team has practiced (especially an American football team)
A usually spiral bound, three-hole notebook which contains a team's formations, plays, and a vocabulary of the technical terms it uses A playbook is issued to each member of the team at the beginning of the training season