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hook-uppers

hook-uppers is the plural of hook-upper.

Meaning of hook-upper

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

Questions about hook-uppers

What is hook-uppers the plural of?
Hook-uppers is the plural of hook-upper.

Words near hook-uppers in the dictionary

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

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