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Definition of by the book

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Other terms relating to 'book':

Definitions include: to leave quickly.
Definitions include: to move very fast.
Definitions include: knowledge gained from reading and studying.
Definitions include: a lock-up in a local police station.
Definitions include: to end.
Definitions include: manipulated accounting records.
Definitions include: to change accounting records to hide fraud or other crimes.
Definitions include: to not follow the script.
Definitions include: to prepare for school.
Definitions include: something extremely notable.
Definitions include: a paper notebook passed between peers at a school, in which they write mean things about classmates and others.
Definitions include: to prosecute to the full extent of the law.

Other terms relating to 'by':

Definitions include: See five by five.
Definitions include: acronym for "by the way".
Definitions include: eventually.
Definitions include: general exclamation.
Definitions include: by oneself.
Definitions include: narrowly.
Definitions include: an execution carried out with firearms shot from a moving vehicle.
Definitions include: something disappeared under unknown circumstances.
Definitions include: fine, good, okay.
Definitions include: adjective.
Definitions include: to catch or trap a person in a difficult situation.
Definitions include: to have the advantage in a situation.
Definitions include: to be in a very good position in life, business, etc.
Definitions include: To live with the present being the most important; to live a dream or to understand the unchanging world, so to speak.
Definitions include: it is usually defined as "definitely not, no way etc."

Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
Definitions include: interrogation.
Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: information.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: inclusive.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

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