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hook and eye

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hook and eye
n.
1. A clothes fastener consisting of a small blunt metal hook that is inserted in a corresponding loop or eyelet.
2. A latch consisting of a hook that is inserted in a screw eye.
hook and eye
n
(Clothing & Fashion) a fastening for clothes consisting of a small hook hooked onto a small metal or thread loop
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Noun1.hook and eye - a kind of fastener used on clothing
fastening, holdfast, fastener, fixing - restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
Translations
hook and eye
n → Haken und Öse no art, pl vb


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To see how Miggs looked on with a face expressive of knowing how all this loveliness was got up, and of being in the secret of every string and pin and hook and eye, and of saying it ain't half as real as you think, and I could look quite as well myself if I took the pains
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
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