hook up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hooks up
form: hooking up
form: hooked up
form: hooked up
Senses: glosses: To hook something together.
To assemble the parts of a mechanism, especially by connecting wires.
coordinate_terms: set up
examples: text: The suspect was hooked up to a lie detector.
text: An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
ref: 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
glosses: To hook something together.
To connect to something like a power supply or a signal source.
examples: text: The last time Madonna was indisputably on point, she had hooked up with French producer Mirwais for Music (2000) and the sensuous possibilities of club culture.
ref: 2019 June 8, Kitty Empire, “Madonna: Madame X review – a splendidly bizarre return to form”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To associate or socialize with someone.
To form an association (with) someone.
raw_tags: followed by with
examples: text: One site, PearPop.com, hooks TikTok or Instagram influencers up with fans to create duetted or stitched videos that fans pay for. This can be an effective way to build followers fast.⁹ Model Leah Svoboda added 120,000 followers after a PearPop duet with megainfluencer Anna Shumate.¹⁰
ref: 2022, Brian Boxer Wachler, Influenced: The Impact of Social Media on Our Perception, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, pages 186–187:
glosses: To associate or socialize with someone.
To connect (someone) (with) another person.
coordinate_terms: set up
raw_tags: followed by with
examples: text: You work out so you can increase your chances of hooking up. That means having the kind of physique that looks good in clothes and looks even better naked.
ref: 2008, Nate Green, Built for Show, page 3:
glosses: To associate or socialize with someone.
To have a casual sexual experience with another person, usually without any future relationship intended.
synonyms: word: do it
word: get laid
word: Netflix and chill
word: have sex
word: approach
word: cohabit
word: company
word: copulate
word: couple
word: engage in sex
word: exchange flesh
word: have intimate relations
word: have marital relations
word: have sex
word: have sexual relations
word: intercourse
word: know
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: make love
word: mate
word: share a bed
word: sleep together
word: strain
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beat
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: bop
word: bounce
word: breed
word: bump nasties
word: bump uglies
word: catch a dick
word: dance
word: discuss Uganda
word: dip one's pen in someone's inkwell
word: do it
word: do the deed
word: do the nasty
word: eff
word: engender
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get busy
word: get down
word: get freaky
word: get it
word: get it on
word: get jiggy
word: get laid
word: get lucky
word: get one's dick wet
word: get one's end away
word: get one's freak on
word: get one's groove on
word: get one's leg over
word: get one's oats
word: get physical
word: get some
word: get the dirty water off one's chest
word: graft the forked tree
word: go all the way
word: haul one's ashes
word: have it away
word: have it off
word: hide the salami
word: hide the sausage
word: hide the wienie
word: hike the Appalachian Trail
word: hook up
word: hump
word: jig-jig
word: knock boots
word: lay pipe
word: lay the pipe
word: make it
word: make out
word: make the beast with two backs
word: make whoopee
word: meddle
word: ming
word: Netflix and chill
word: penetrate
word: pipe
word: pipe down
word: play
word: play hide the sausage
word: pound
word: rail
word: ride
word: rock and roll
word: roger
word: roll around
word: root
word: screw
word: see someone's etchings
word: sex
word: shag
word: shelve
word: show someone one's etchings
word: slap bellies
word: stick
word: tumble
raw_tags: followed by with
examples: text: That guy didn't get his ticket; can you hook him up for me?
glosses: To sell or supply something.
To supply someone with goods or services.
coordinate_terms: set up
examples: text: Hey man, can you hook me up with some weed?
text: He's been hooking me up for years.
glosses: To sell or supply something.
To deal drugs; to sell contraband.
examples: text: When you need a new car, come see me, I can hook you up with friend prices.
glosses: To sell or supply something.
To give a good deal for buying something; to give something for free or to give more than the recipient is entitled to.
Derived terms: word: hook it up
word: hookup
word: hook-up
word: hook up on