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• n  a hook for pulling a button through a buttonhole

• It was a counterrevolution as drastic as a full-scale revival of the 1914 Pierce-Arrow, the buttonhook and the mustache cup.
• At Raleigh Prison, one John Wilson got an impression of his room's keyhole with chewing-gum, made a key to match out of a buttonhook, walked out at night.
• This modified buttonhook play allows traffickers to take advantage of established drug routes--a smart strategy, since customs agents in a place such as Tajikistan, where 200 tons .

Quotes

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• Bruce Weber in Freeport Journal-Standard
  It's a timing thing,Weber said. "We spread them out with four guys on the perimeter. Then it's kind of a buttonhook in football. It's a timing pattern. He loops in there. He can pick either side. Our guys were patient and took good shots....