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▸ noun: A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
▸ noun: A major division of a long work.
▸ noun: (gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
▸ noun: (informal) A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
▸ noun: A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
▸ noun: (theater) The script of a musical or opera.
▸ noun: (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
▸ noun: (law, colloquial) A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
▸ noun: (whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
▸ noun: (poker slang) Four of a kind.
▸ noun: (sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents that happened in a game.
▸ noun: (sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
▸ noun: (horse racing) The list of mares that a stallion will breed in a given season.
▸ noun: (horse racing) A list of the races that a jockey is scheduled to ride in.
▸ noun: (cartomancy) The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
▸ noun: (figurative) Any source of instruction.
▸ noun: (with "the") The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
▸ noun: (advertising, informal) A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.
▸ noun: (chess, uncountable) The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame.
▸ verb: (transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.
▸ verb: (transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
▸ verb: (transitive) To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
▸ verb: (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
▸ verb: (sports) To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
▸ verb: (intransitive, slang) To travel very fast.
▸ verb: To record bets as bookmaker.
▸ verb: (transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
▸ verb: (intransitive, slang) To leave.
▸ noun: A surname.
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novel,
biography,
autobiography,
memoir,
history,
textbook,
cookbook,
poetry,
science fiction,
romance,
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