off-book

See also: off book

English

Adjective

off-book

1. (theater) Able to perform scripted material from memory, without need to refer to the text.
2. (accounting) Off the books, not officially recorded.
   • 2013, James Palmer, ‘Kept women’, Aeon:

     An enormous amount of off-book money sloshes around Chinese business and officialdom, and some of it runs into handbags.