off-book

adjective

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

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Meanings

adjective
  1. entertainmentAble to perform scripted material from memory, without need to refer to the text.
  2. accountingOff the books, not officially recorded.

    An enormous amount of off-book money sloshes around Chinese business and officialdom, and some of it runs into handbags.

    2013, James Palmer, ‘Kept women’, Aeon

Origin

From off- + book.

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 脫稿 /脱稿
  • 脫稿 /脱稿 (tuōgǎo)Able to perform scripted material from memory
Cite this entry
APA

off-book. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/off-book

MLA

“off-book.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/off-book. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “off-book,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/off-book.

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