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hookup

[ hook-uhp ]

noun

  1. an act or instance of hooking up.
  2. an assembly and connection of parts, components, or apparatus into a circuit, network, machine, or system.
  3. the circuit, network, machine, or system so formed.
  4. a device or connection, as a plug, hose, or pipe, for conveying electricity, a water supply, etc., from a source to a user:

    Some campsites have electrical hookups for trailers.

  5. Informal. an association, alliance, or cooperative effort:

    A closer hookup of Caribbean nations would be good for international trade.

  6. Informal.
    1. a sexual encounter without a long-term commitment:

      I’m over these college boys who are only interested in meaningless hookups.

    2. a person with whom one has such an encounter:

      I ran into an old hookup at the club, but I pretended not to remember her.

  7. Slang.
    1. a supplier of illicit goods, usually drugs:

      My hookup is getting out of the game—can you introduce me to your guy?

    2. access to illegal drugs:

      When you are trying to score on the street it is easy to see who has the hookup.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of hookup1

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05; noun use of verb phrase hook up

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Example Sentences

They had four maps of Tuscaloosa, a television set and radio, and a radio-telephone hookup linking them to Katzenbach and other members of the administration on the ground.

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Nonetheless, this can all be completed in a day, particularly at sites where the electrical and plumbing hookups are ready and waiting.

You can find some primitive campsites throughout the gorge, some of which are accessible by gravel roads, but they’re first come, first served only and have no water or hookups.

He had little relationship experience, in fact, and he didn’t learn about hookup apps until he was a junior in college.

When some of the earliest human migrants to Europe encountered Neandertals already living there around 45,000 years ago, hookups flourished.

JSwipe definitely gives off less of a hookup vibe than others.

Throughout the shooting of To Russia With Love, Gonick and Vlad communicated through, of all things, the gay hookup app Grindr.

In a crucial Senate election, the NRA is running ads for a socially conservative Republican candidate on a hookup app for gay men.

What might be dismissed as a foolish drunken hookup is now a felony rape.

For their part, hookup apps say they are committed to promoting safe sex.

I want you to get on the telephone, ask for an emergency hookup with the engineers of the other companies.

A new voice cut into the communications hookup, a feminine voice.

Eagerly they began making adjustments—both on the electronic-brain hookup and the converter mechanism.

But you said you had a name, and that it indicated a Norheim-Uighar hookup.

The hookup would be powered by the solar battery in the hydrolung power unit, by connecting wires through the breathing tube.

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