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What (who) is hook up - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Hookup; Hook up; Hooking up; Hook-up (disambiguation); Hookups; Hooks up; Hookup (disambiguation); Hooking up (disambiguation)
hook up
1. To handcuff (refers to the specific act of handcuffing, but implies taking into custody). Police slang.
2. To get together romantically.
1. Tags on the car are expired, let's go ahead and hook him up. OR Busy day today, we musta hooked up five, six guys.
2. I hooked up with this nice guy at the dance. OR I saw you mackin' on that girl - you two hook up?
3. To copulate.
Billie dumped Willie because he wouldn't hook up with her.
2. To get together romantically.
1. Tags on the car are expired, let's go ahead and hook him up. OR Busy day today, we musta hooked up five, six guys.
2. I hooked up with this nice guy at the dance. OR I saw you mackin' on that girl - you two hook up?
3. To copulate.
Billie dumped Willie because he wouldn't hook up with her.
hook up
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When someone hooks up a computer or other electronic machine, they connect it to other similar machines or to a central power supply.
...technicians who hook up computer systems and networks...
He brought it down, hooked it up, and we got the generator going.
...if the machine is hooked up to an apartment's central wiring system.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P, be V-ed P to n
hook up
v.
1) (D; tr.) to hook up to (to hook a telephone up to the cable)
2) (D; intr.) to hook up with ('to join')
Wikipedia
Hook-up
Hook-up has several meanings:
- Making a connection between components in a system
- An electrical connector
- A connection to water, sewer, or electrical utilities at a campsite
- Meet up, or making a connection between people
- Slang term for courtship, especially of short duration
- A one-night stand
- Casual relationship or casual sex
- In urban slang, a discount
- In urban slang, a drug dealer
Examples of use of hook up
1. Q: So why doesn‘t Meredith hook up with George already?
2. This time, he‘ll perform two spacewalks to hook up Columbus.
3. "I know people who are determined to hook up to someone online on Craigslist.
4. And then these four guys hook up in Chino Valley," she said.
5. The crew will conduct four spacewalks to hook up the new equipment and perform maintenance.