Buttonhook

Origin

button + hook

Full definition of buttonhook

Noun

1. (sewing) A hook used to pull thread through the holes of a button
2. (American football) 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, and they never tried to simply get the ball into his hands with a quick screen--perhaps because McMahon couldn't get the required zip on the ball for these patterns, perhaps because the Bears were merely stupid. ...