buttonhook
verbEtymology From button + hook.
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American football, Ball games, Football, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To perform the buttonhook play.
buttonhook
nounEtymology From button + hook.
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Historical A hook for pulling the buttons of gloves and shoes through the buttonholes.
- ‘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.’1920, DH Lawrence, Women in Love, Vintage, published 2008, page 14:
- Hustlers used to sell shoes like that to the greenhorns fifty years ago with a buttonhook for a bonus.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 370:
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American football, Ball games, Football, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports A play in which the receiver runs straight downfield, then turns back toward the line of scrimmage.
- Yet the Bears never set up the deep patterns with a turn-in or a buttonhook[…].1988 January 15, Ted Cox, “The Sports Section”, in Chicago Reader:
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Business, Manufacturing, Sewing, Textiles A hook used to pull thread through the holes of a button.