hook and eye

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   a kind of fastener used on clothing

   Broaderfastener

Questions about hook and eye

What does hook and eye mean?

hook and eye means "a kind of fastener used on clothing".

Is hook and eye a common word?

hook and eye is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.