WordNet
button hole
n. a hole through which buttons are pushed [syn: buttonhole]
Usage examples of "button hole".
As if it were the most natural thing in the world, as if months hadn't passed since his last visit, he was suddenly standing in our yard, dressed fit to kill: English cloth, red carnation in button hole, short-haired, and stewed to the gills.
The outside button on Lew's cuff had freakishly caught in the man's lapel button hole, twisted around in some way.
McCoy, USMC, grabbed his dungaree jacket, and looped a casualty tag string through a button hole.