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off-book

off-book adjective: able to perform scripted material from memory, without need to refer to the text.

Adjective

off-book

  1. Able to perform scripted material from memory, without need to refer to the text.
  2. Off the books, not officially recorded.
    • An enormous amount of off-book money sloshes around Chinese business and officialdom, and some of it runs into handbags.2013, James Palmer, ‘Kept women’, Aeon

Origin of off-book

From off- + book.

Questions about off-book

What does off-book mean?
Off-book means able to perform scripted material from memory, without need to refer to the text.
What part of speech is off-book?
Off-book is an adjective.

Words near off-book in the dictionary

  1. off-beam
  2. off-bear
  3. off-beat
  4. off-beats
  5. off-board
  6. off-book
  7. off-brand
  8. off-Broadway
  9. off-Broadways
  10. off-by-one bug
  11. off-by-one bugs

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