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hook-upper

hook-upper noun: one who hooks up.

Noun

hook-upper (plural hook-uppers)

  1. (rare) One who hooks up.
    • Fiction has always had a problem keeping up with contemporary tech culture, though. The past year has seen a shift from Facebook to Tinder among young hook-uppers that already rendered [Marie] Calloway’s book [what purpose did i serve in your life] (which is rife with excerpted Facebook chats and...2013 December 24, August Brown, “Perfect Strangers: Tinder and 21st Century Fiction”, in Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles, Calif., →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2016
    • The Sloppy, Public Hook-uppers / Alright, this just looks bad in the first place. As moved as everyone is by the love story unfolding in front of them of two people who just met shoving their Admiral Nelson-laced tongues down each other’s throats, it looks even worse on Halloween, and for one...2015 October 29, SC Student Media, “Don’t Be That Person This Halloween”, in The Springfield Student, Springfield, Mass.: Springfield College, archived from the original on 28 Sep 2020

Examples of hook-upper in a sentence

  • The Sloppy, Public Hook-uppers / Alright, this just looks bad in the first place.2015 October 29, SC Student Media, “Don’t Be That Person This Halloween”, in The Springfield Student, Springfield, Mass.: Springfield...
  • The usual "hi" messages, the meaningless touristy hook-uppers, the "how can you read if you're blind?" conversation starters, the "yo sexy lady" starters... patience, I told myself.2017 July 1, Tara Wills, “The eyes are NOT a window to the soul: I’m not broken, I am asexual”, in Aze, archived from the original on 03...
  • A bunch of ridiculously attractive serial daters/hook-uppers are thrown onto an island and told to refrain from my form of sexual pleasure of any kind.2023 April 3, Maria Polcari, “How Does Terrible Trash TV Make So Much Money?”, in Weird Marketing Tales, archived from the original on 22...

Forms of hook-upper

pluralhook-uppers

Origin of hook-upper

From hook up + -er.

Questions about hook-upper

What does hook-upper mean?
Hook-upper means one who hooks up.
How do you use hook-upper in a sentence?
The Sloppy, Public Hook-uppers / Alright, this just looks bad in the first place.
What part of speech is hook-upper?
Hook-upper is a noun.
What is the plural of hook-upper?
The plural of hook-upper is hook-uppers.

Words near hook-upper in the dictionary

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

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