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hook-up

hook-up is the alternative form of hookup.

Meaning of hookup

Noun

hookup (plural hookups)

  1. (attributive, sometimes) A connection.
    • The plumber came to fix the sewer hookup.
  2. (slang) A brief sexual relationship or encounter.
    • 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.
    Synonyms:
    fling
  3. (slang) A sexual partner.
    • The predominant way of finding a hookup or sexual partner would be going online.

Forms of hook-up

pluralhook-ups

Origin of hook-up

Deverbal from hook up.

Questions about hook-up

What is hook-up the alternative form of?
Hook-up is the alternative form of hookup.

Words near hook-up in the dictionary

  1. hook-bill
  2. hook-eared
  3. hook-eared sculpin
  4. hook-eared sculpins
  5. hook-nosed
  6. hook-up
  7. hook-upper
  8. hook-uppers
  9. hook-ups
  10. hooka
  11. hooka-burdar

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hook-up (page history and authors); hookup (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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