buttonhook

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   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.’
   • Hustlers used to sell shoes like that to the greenhorns fifty years ago with a buttonhook for a bonus.
2. 2

   A play in which the receiver runs straight downfield, then turns back toward the line of…

   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[…].
3. 3

   A hook used to pull thread through the holes of a button.

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   1. 4

      To perform the buttonhook play.

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