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fake books

fake books is the plural of fake book.

Meaning of fake book

Noun

fake book (plural fake books)

  1. A collection of musical lead sheets intended to help a performer quickly learn new songs.
    • Contemporary popular music tends to be specific in indicating slash cords, while older fake books generally indicate only root chord names.1986, Michael Esterowitz, How to Play from a Fake Book, Ekay Music, →ISBN, page 34
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fake, book.

Questions about fake books

What is fake books the plural of?
Fake books is the plural of fake book.

Words near fake books in the dictionary

  1. fake
  2. fake and gay
  3. fake as a two-dollar bill
  4. fake bad
  5. fake book
  6. fake books
  7. fake fan
  8. fake fans
  9. fake fen
  10. fake geek girl
  11. fake geek girls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fake books (page history and authors); fake book (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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