Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A system or network of electrical circuits or equipment designed to operate together.
- n. A configuration of mechanical parts or devices providing a link between a supply source and a user: a gas hookup for a mobile home.
- n. A plan or schematic drawing of such a system or such a configuration.
- n. Informal A linkage or connection, often between unlikely associates or factors.
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- adj. For the purpose of connecting.
- n. A connection.
- n. A brief sexual relationship or encounter; a fling.
- n. A sexual partner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a device providing a connection between a power source and a user
- n. a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose
Etymologies
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Examples
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Holman and her colleagues queried 274 college students on how they defined the term "hookup" and how often they themselves hooked up.
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The suburbanite with the hardcore porn hookup is masturbating to real sex, albeit at a DSL-enabled remove.
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Every girl was a new challenge, a short-term hookup to broaden his horizons.
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His pitch was that the incubator should offer more than the promise of a major label hookup if the artist could get himself to the next sales level.
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Washer hookup is $11, but there is no hookup service for the gas.
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The suburbanite with the hard-core porn hookup is masturbating to real sex, albeit at a DSL-enabled remove.
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I can't get the hookup from the TV/VCR to the computer properly.
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Search Engine Journal reckons a Microsoft/Yahoo hookup is a good idea, not least for the fact that this game is "all about volume".
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Others are never doing anything you would call a hookup.
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First of all, it refers to the person with whom you are hooking up “I only call my hookup after 1 A.M.”
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