Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A player in a sport with goals, such as a guard in basketball, who initiates offensive plays.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer of plays.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A playwright.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated A
playwright . - noun US, sports A sportsman who leads attacks for his team and creates chances to score.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a player in a team sport who leads attacks or maneuvers in such a way that a teammate can score
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Examples
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But the 6-4 junior was the one consistent threat the Cougars had throughout and emerged as the likely main playmaker for this fall.
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Unlike last summer, when training camp was a hectic crash course after McNair arrived in mid-June following an acrimonious divorce from the Titans, Baltimore's most important playmaker is rested and acclimated.
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Although Landesberg is great with the ball, I see his strength as being a scorer — and then secondarily a playmaker from the wing position.
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This 6-foot playmaker is little only on conventional scales.
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In fact, the young and restless Nets might be the conference's only consistent contender for the immediate future — as long as a certain playmaker doesn't pick up his dribble and head for the door.
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'' They work hard, '' McNabb said of the often-maligned receiving group that's lacked a big-name playmaker since Terrell Owens was kicked off the team in 2005.
USATODAY.com 2008
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Say what you want but that to me spells out playmaker, which is what you want in the NFL.
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Although the newcomers do not include a striker, they do include a new goalkeeper, David De Gea from Atletico Madrid, and Ferguson might still reel in Dutch playmaker Wesley Sneijder from Inter Milan.
News - latimes.com 2011
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A gifted player previously known as a playmaker first and a scorer second tied for his first
The Shad Plank 2010
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Their playmaker has been a key figure in this, as authoritative from open play as he is from set-pieces.
The Times of India 2010
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