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fake book
noun
A collection of musical lead sheets intended to help a performer quickly learn new songs.
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" 'Peggy O'Neil'?" Out came the fake book.
In a recent article, David Streitfeld wrote about fake book reviews on the Internet.
They promote the Fake Book of a mentally deranged author, who knowingly writes false information.
She writes fake book reports about brave pioneer children who, like her, have an unclear past and an uncertain future.
Thousands of jokes are made each day on Twitter consisting, for example, of fake book titles on some iconoclastic theme.
Her first novel, Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989), was set in the bohemian world of the San Francisco Bay area during the 1960s.
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All those fake books paid off for "Hugo".
From Flavorwire, ten awesome-sounding fake books from movies.
Some firms use fake books showing shorter hours and higher pay.
I sourced fake books for people's libraries, marbled filing cabinets for home offices and knocked through walls".
"They built this fake set, with fake books, filled with real money!" he says, pouring bills out of hollow legal volumes used as props.
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