buttonhook

English

Etymology

button +‎ hook

Noun

buttonhook (plural buttonhooks)

(sewing) A hook used to pull thread through the holes of a button.
A hook for pulling the buttons of gloves and shoes through the buttonholes.
- 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 370:
  Hustlers used to sell shoes like that to the greenhorns fifty years ago with a buttonhook for a bonus.
(American football) A play in which the receiver runs straight downfield, then turns back toward the line of scrimmage.
- 1988 January 15, Ted Cox, “The Sports Section”, in Chicago Reader‎:
  Yet the Bears never set up the deep patterns with a turn-in or a buttonhook […]

Translations

A hook used to pull thread through a button's holes

Irish: crúca cnaipe m
Italian: please add this translation if you can
Plautdietsch: Knoophoake m
Polish: haczyk (pl) m
Portuguese: abotoador m
Russian: please add this translation if you can

Verb

buttonhook (third-person singular simple present buttonhooks, present participle buttonhooking, simple past and past participle buttonhooked)

(American football) To perform the buttonhook play.

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