Meaning of buttonhook | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A hook for pulling the buttons of gloves and shoes through the buttonholes.
   historical
2. A play in which the receiver runs straight downfield, then turns back toward the line of scrimmage.
3. A hook used to pull thread through the holes of a button.

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Examples

“‘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.’”

“Hustlers used to sell shoes like that to the greenhorns fifty years ago with a buttonhook for a bonus.”

“Yet the Bears never set up the deep patterns with a turn-in or a buttonhook[…].”

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