Buttonhook
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Buttonhook is a noun meaning (now chiefly historical) A hook for pulling the buttons of gloves and shoes through the buttonholes.
Meaning
(now chiefly historical) A hook for pulling the buttons of gloves and shoes through the buttonholes.
More Meanings
- (American football) A play in which the receiver runs straight downfield, then turns back toward the line of scrimmage.
- (sewing) A hook used to pull thread through the holes of a button.
- (American football) To perform the buttonhook play.
Example Sentences
Yet the Bears never set up the deep patterns with a turn-in or a buttonhook[…].
Hustlers used to sell shoes like that to the greenhorns fifty years ago with a buttonhook for a bonus.
‘I'm sorry we are so late,’ he was saying. ‘We couldn't find a button-hook, so it took us a long time to button our boots.’
Word Forms
- buttonhooks
- buttonhooking
- buttonhooked
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include buttonholer, hook, drawhook, hookling, tenterhook, tenter hook.
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