Sekirov Dictionary

buttonhook

noun 3
verb 1
forms 3

noun3

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

verb1

To perform the buttonhook play.

forms

buttonhooked · buttonhooking · buttonhooks

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