BUTTONHOOK


Meaning of BUTTONHOOK in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈbə-t ə n-ˌhu̇k ]

noun

Date: 1870

1. : a hook for drawing small buttons through buttonholes

2. : an offensive play in football in which the pass receiver runs straight downfield and then abruptly cuts back toward the line of scrimmage

• buttonhook intransitive verb

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.