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playmaker
[ pley-mey-ker ]
noun
, Sports.
- an offensive player, as in basketball or ice hockey, who executes plays designed to put one or more teammates in a position to score.
- Archaic. a playwright; dramatist.
playmaker
/ ˈpleɪˌmeɪkə /
noun
- sport a player whose role is to create scoring opportunities for his or her team-mates
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Word History and Origins
Origin of playmaker1
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Example Sentences
They named Howe the smartest player, best passer and playmaker and best puck carrier.
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Still, the side has undergone many changes and, crucially, is without its injured playmaker Michael Essien.
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Watch out for playmaker Asamoah Gyan—everything Ghana does seems to go through him.
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I am no playmaker, and, for pledging your healths, I love none of the four you drank to so well.
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It is to require the story-teller and the playmaker to prove a thesis that common sense must reject.
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It was the work of a playmaker rather than a poet, and the verse had none of the elevation of Godfreys or Rogerss.
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