cabin hook

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a hook and eye for fastening a cabinet door or the like.

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Mississippi’s nickname comes from the magnificent trees that grow there. What is it?

“I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.
Grindr’s Trans Dating Problem|David Levesley|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
If the oft-talked-about college “hook-up culture” could be embodied by a place, it would be Shooters.
Random Hook-Ups or Dry Spells: Why Millennials Flunk College Dating|Ellie Schaack|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But Kent will not let us off the familiar horror hook so easily.
Grief: The Real Monster in The Babadook|Tim Teeman|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They “hook up” in a manner that makes the casual sex of the 1960s seem like an arranged marriage in Oman.
Up to a Point: They Made Me Write About Lena Dunham|P. J. O’Rourke|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST

When you met him on Tinder were you initially thinking of this as a hook-up or a relationship?
Exclusive: Michael Phelps’s Intersex Self-Proclaimed Girlfriend, Taylor Lianne Chandler, Tells All|Aurora Snow|November 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The latter trod on the toes of the former, whereupon the former threatened to "kick out of the cabin" the latter.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
Dinner was spread in the cabin of that peerless steamer, the New World, and a splendid company were assembled about the table.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
But he was so surprisingly dexterous with his lips, and feet too, when he was in his cabin that I suppose I put them down to that.
Uncanny Tales|Various
I pulled the saddle off my horse, slapped it down on the dirt floor, and went stalking up to the long cabin.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Only then did I own that by hook or by crook—and mostly by crook, I was forced to suspect—they had purposely given me the slip.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair