playmaker
[pley-mey-ker]
- 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.
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Origin of playmaker
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Examples from the Web for playmaker
Contemporary Examples
They named Howe the smartest player, best passer and playmaker and best puck carrier.
Watch out for playmaker Asamoah Gyan—everything Ghana does seems to go through him.
Historical Examples
I am no playmaker, and, for pledging your healths, I love none of the four you drank to so well.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays (11 of 15)W. Carew Hazlitt
It was the work of a playmaker rather than a poet, and the verse had none of the elevation of Godfreys or Rogerss.
A History of American LiteraturePercy H. Boynton
It is to require the story-teller and the playmaker to prove a thesis that common sense must reject.
Materials and Methods of FictionClayton Hamilton
playmaker
- sport a player whose role is to create scoring opportunities for his or her team-mates
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