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buttonhooks

buttonhooks is the plural of buttonhook.

buttonhooks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of buttonhook.

Meaning of buttonhook

Noun

buttonhook (plural buttonhooks)

  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.’1920, DH Lawrence, Women in Love, Vintage, published 2008, page 14
  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[…].1988 January 15, Ted Cox, “The Sports Section”, in Chicago Reader
  3. A hook used to pull thread through the holes of a button.

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Questions about buttonhooks

What is buttonhooks the plural of?
Buttonhooks is the plural of buttonhook.

Words near buttonhooks in the dictionary

  1. buttonholing
  2. buttonholings
  3. buttonhook
  4. buttonhooked
  5. buttonhooking
  6. buttonhooks
  7. buttoning
  8. buttoning one's lip
  9. buttoning through
  10. buttoning up
  11. buttoning up one's lip

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buttonhooks (page history and authors); buttonhook (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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