off book

Speech parts

1. off book - Adjective

2. off book - Phrase

Meaning

(theater) No longer needing the script to rehearse.
After 5 days studying the script, Jane is now off book, and can concentrate on gesture more.

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(theater) Able to perform scripted material from memory, without need to refer to the text.

(accounting) Off the books, not officially recorded.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

off-book

Antonyms

on book

Related terms

on the Book on the books off the books hold the book keep the book on book

Examples

Part of this style of training includes actors memorizing lines to be able to work off-book, a term that means being able to work without a script. Source: Internet

These discoveries are made with the help of former MI5 officer Victor Oxley, "Bedrock" - an off-book MI5 asset who operated as an assassin during the Cold War in similar fashion to Talanov, aka Zenith. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

off book

Close letter words and terms

off beat off beaten path off board off brand off break off by heart