noun, adjective
noun a book, used in the past by children in school, containing examples of writing which school students had to copy
IDIOMS see BLOTv.
adjective [onlybeforenoun] (BrE) done exactly how it should be done:
It was a copybook operation by the police.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for copybook is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does copybook appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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