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buttonhook
noun 3verb 1
Collocations
3VERB + BUTTONHOOK
turn-in
BUTTONHOOK + NOUN
bonus
PREP.
with
Definitions
noun
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
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
A hook used to pull thread through the holes of a button.
verb
1
To perform the buttonhook play.
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‘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.’
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Hustlers used to sell shoes like that to the greenhorns fifty years ago with a buttonhook for a bonus.
Wiktionary03
Yet the Bears never set up the deep patterns with a turn-in or a buttonhook[…].
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