playmaker

[ pley-mey-ker ]

/ ˈpleɪˌmeɪ kər /

an offensive player, as in basketball or ice hockey, who executes plays designed to put one or more teammates in a position to score.

Archaic. a playwright; dramatist.

Origin of playmaker

First recorded in 1520–30; play + maker

play·mak·ing, noun

They named Howe the smartest player, best passer and playmaker and best puck carrier.

Gordie Howe Hockey’s Greatest War Horse |W.C. Heinz |May 31, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Watch out for playmaker Asamoah Gyan—everything Ghana does seems to go through him.

World Cup Primer |Joshua Robinson |June 12, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
I am no playmaker, and, for pledging your healths, I love none of the four you drank to so well.

A Select Collection of Old English Plays (11 of 15) |W. Carew Hazlitt
It is to require the story-teller and the playmaker to prove a thesis that common sense must reject.

Materials and Methods of Fiction |Clayton Hamilton

It was the work of a playmaker rather than a poet, and the verse had none of the elevation of Godfreys or Rogerss.

A History of American Literature |Percy H. Boynton

playmaker

/ (ˈpleɪˌmeɪkə) /

sport a player whose role is to create scoring opportunities for his or her team-mates