Definitions
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- verb transitive, intransitive To fail to
book enough of something; not tosell as much of something as is required.
Etymologies
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under- + book
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Examples
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That's why the "underbook" of My Sister, My Love is intentionally tedious, confusing, and self-indulgent, while the main narrative, "mere storytelling" though it may be, gets better and better.
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler: What We Talk About When We Talk About JonBenet 2008
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Designed to frustrate readers and bedevil critics, this "underbook" is Oates 'riff on post-modernist self referential, inter-texual writing about writing.
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler: What We Talk About When We Talk About JonBenet 2008
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