buttonhook

noun

1. (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.’”

   “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.