Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈhʊkʌp/
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ˈhʊkʌp
Noun
A connection.
Usage- attributive
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The plumber came to fix the sewer hookup.
I need to buy some hookup wire.
A brief sexual relationship or encounter.
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He met his two most recent partners at bars, and expressed strong ambivalence and dislike of meeting partners online, but reported half a dozen additional hookups with partners met online.
It is easy to write off Grindr — a location-based dating application for gay men — as a hookup application because, well, that is what it is. […] Grindr’s main purpose is to facilitate hookups that are “spontaneous and intimate,” he said.
A sexual partner.
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The predominant way of finding a hookup or sexual partner would be going online.
It could simply be that “gay men are early adopters,” he said. “I joke that the wheel was invented by a gay man so he could get to his hookup faster.”
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I bought more bungee cords and made my way to my hookup’s house via slower, more manageable back roads.
Noun
a device providing a connection between a power source and a user
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some campsites have electrical hookups for trailers
a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose
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