playmaker

playmaker
playmaking, n.
/play"may'keuhr/, n. Sports.
1. an offensive player, as in basketball or ice hockey, who executes plays designed to put one or more teammates in a position to score.
2. Archaic. a playwright; dramatist.
[1520-30; PLAY + MAKER]

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