hookup
an act or instance of hooking up.
an assembly and connection of parts, components, or apparatus into a circuit, network, machine, or system.
the circuit, network, machine, or system so formed.
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.
Informal. an association, alliance, or cooperative effort: A closer hookup of Caribbean nations would be good for international trade.
Informal.
a sexual encounter without a long-term commitment: I’m over these college boys who are only interested in meaningless hookups.
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.
Slang.
a supplier of illicit goods, usually drugs: My hookup is getting out of the game—can you introduce me to your guy?
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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How to use hookup in a sentence
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.
How Robert F. Kennedy Shaped His Brother's Response to Civil Rights | Patricia Sullivan | August 11, 2021 | TimeNonetheless, this can all be completed in a day, particularly at sites where the electrical and plumbing hookups are ready and waiting.
These Foldable Houses Cost $50k and Go Up in a Day | Vanessa Bates Ramirez | July 29, 2021 | Singularity HubYou 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.
Europe’s oldest known humans mated with Neandertals surprisingly often | Bruce Bower | April 7, 2021 | Science News
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Throughout the shooting of To Russia With Love, Gonick and Vlad communicated through, of all things, the gay hookup app Grindr.
‘To Russia With Love’: Can Johnny Weir Save Russia’s Gays? | Kevin Fallon | October 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 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.
Watchbird | Robert SheckleyA new voice cut into the communications hookup, a feminine voice.
Eight Keys to Eden | Mark Irvin CliftonEagerly they began making adjustments—both on the electronic-brain hookup and the converter mechanism.
Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X | Victor AppletonBut you said you had a name, and that it indicated a Norheim-Uighar hookup.
Triplanetary | Edward Elmer SmithThe hookup would be powered by the solar battery in the hydrolung power unit, by connecting wires through the breathing tube.
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung | Victor Appleton
British Dictionary definitions for hook-up
the contact of an aircraft in flight with the refuelling hose of a tanker aircraft
an alliance or relationship, esp an unlikely one, between people, countries, etc
the linking of broadcasting equipment or stations to transmit a special programme
to connect (two or more people or things)
(often foll by with) slang to get married (to)
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with hookup
Assemble or wire a mechanism, as in Dick helped us hook up the stereo system. [1920s]
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