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ˈplay-ˌmaker
Also playmaker.
1. A maker, composer, or writer of plays; a dramatic author. Now rare.
1530Palsgr. 255/1 Playe maker, factevr, factiste. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 44 Perchance it is the Comick, whom naughtie Play-makers and Stage-keepers, have iustly made odious. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 261 He retired to the Metropolis, lived in Greys Inn, and set up for a playmaker. 1812Dramatic Censor 1811 182 This may be what our modern playmakers call light and shade. 1903N. & Q. 9th Ser. XI. 201/2 He insults Greene, Elderton, Tarleton, and all play-actors and play-makers. 1953Scrutiny XIX. 204/3 The Restoration playmakers did not exercise their classical imitation by ordering any general issues into any pattern.
2. A player in a team game, esp. basketball, who leads an attack, or brings other players on his side into a position to score. Hence playmaking a. orig. U.S.
1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §662/2 Hockey... Playmaker, a player who does not attempt to score but puts the puck in place for the scorer. 1951Sun (Baltimore) 12 Jan. 14/4 Bill Kelso, Patterson's playmaker at guard, is expected to be back in action tonight after missing the game against Southern. 1961Look 15 Aug. 84 In high school..he was better known as a basketball playmaker than as a pitcher. 1967Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. ii. 1/5 Jones, the playmaker, turned gunner Saturday night... The Celtics went up 2–0 on New York in their best-of-five first-round Eastern Division playoffs. 1972N.Y. Times 4 June 6/1 Ford, a playmaker on the varsity basketball team, is the son of Doug Ford. 1974Anderson (S. Carolina) Independent 23 Apr. 7a/5 Little Ernie DiGregorio, the Buffalo Braves' playmaking guard, and big Ron Behagen, the Kansas City-Omaha Kings' brawny forward, were unanimous choices on the National Basketball Association's All-Rookie team for the 1973–74 season. 1975New Yorker 7 Apr. 94/3 He was just the man the Bucks had wanted—an experienced ball handler and playmaker who would give the team the steadiness it needed in the backcourt. 1979Guardian 26 Apr. 22/4 The Austrians could offer nothing in attack, where their elegant playmaker, Prohaska, continually dwelt on the ball.
Add: Hence (as a back-formation) ˈplaymake v. intr. Sport (chiefly U.S.), to lead or engage in attacking play; also ˈplaymaking ppl. a. and vbl. n.
1974Anderson (S. Carolina) Independent 23 Apr. 7a/5 Little Ernie DiGregorio, the Buffalo Braves' playmaking guard, and big Ron Behagen, the Kansas City-Omaha Kings' brawny forward, were unanimous choices on the National Basketball Association's All-Rookie team for the 1973–74 season. 1976Daily Record (Glasgow) 23 Nov. 26/1 Danny McGrain is Europe's best full-back and Kenny Dalglish can snatch goals and play-make as no other forward can. 1977Washington Post 14 Jan. d4 Senior guard Skip Brown, whose playmaking had put the Deacons in front. 1984N.Y. Times 7 Oct. v. 11/3 The finesse aspects of the game such as skating, passing and playmaking. 1988Boston Globe 9 Nov. 101/1 If they can't playmake into the offensive end, they'll even resort to more of a dump-and-chase style. |