buttonhook
English
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editNoun
editbuttonhook (plural buttonhooks)
- (sewing) A hook used to pull thread through the holes of a button.
- A hook for pulling the buttons of gloves and shoes through the buttonholes.
- 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 370:
- Hustlers used to sell shoes like that to the greenhorns fifty years ago with a buttonhook for a bonus.
- (American football) A play in which the receiver runs straight downfield, then turns back toward the line of scrimmage.
- 1988 January 15, Ted Cox, “The Sports Section”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- Yet the Bears never set up the deep patterns with a turn-in or a buttonhook […]
Translations
editA hook used to pull thread through a button's holes
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Verb
editbuttonhook (third-person singular simple present buttonhooks, present participle buttonhooking, simple past and past participle buttonhooked)
- (American football) To perform the buttonhook play.