bluebook

== English == === Etymology === From blue +‎ book. === Noun === bluebook (plural bluebooks) A blank booklet of lined paper used in the administration of examinations, so named because of its pale blue front and back covers. 2003, Tonsing, Dennis J., 1000 Days to the Bar, But the Practice of Law Begins Now, Wm. S. Hein Publishing, page 84: The words you will eventually write in your exam bluebook will include the words you have learned by heart, but they will constitute only a portion of the analytical presentation you will develop. === Verb === bluebook (third-person singular simple present bluebooks, present participle bluebooking, simple past and past participle bluebooked) (law) To format a document, particularly a legal document including citations, according to the rules of the Bluebook, a US style guide. (roleplaying games) To have players describe, in writing and in-between regular role-playing sessions, character activities that don't involve the entire group.