buttonhook

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.

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[…].

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

To perform the buttonhook play.