hooking up

Verb

hook up (third-person singular simple present hooks up, present participle hooking up, simple past and past participle hooked up)

1. (transitive) To assemble the parts of a mechanism, especially by connecting wires.
2. (transitive) To connect to something like a power supply or a signal source.
   • The suspect was hooked up to a lie detector.
3. (intransitive, slang) To form an association (with) someone.
   • The last time Madonna was indisputably on point, she had hooked up with French producer Mirwais for Music (2000) and the sensuous possibilities of club culture.2019 June 8, Kitty Empire, “Madonna: Madame X review – a splendidly bizarre return to form”, in The Guardian
4. (slang, transitive) To connect (someone) (with) another person.
   • One site, PearPop.com, hooks TikTok or Instagram influencers up with fans to create duetted or stitched videos that fans pay for. This can be an effective way to build followers fast.⁹ Model Leah Svoboda added 120,000 followers after a PearPop duet with megainfluencer Anna Shumate.¹⁰2022, Brian Boxer Wachler, Influenced: The Impact of Social Media on Our Perception, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, pages 186–187
5. (intransitive, slang) To have a casual sexual experience with another person, usually without any future relationship intended.
   • You work out so you can increase your chances of hooking up. That means having the kind of physique that looks good in clothes and looks even better naked.2008, Nate Green, Built for Show, page 3

   Synonyms:

   do it, get laid, Netflix and chill, have sex, approach, cohabit, common, company, copulate, couple

6. (idiomatic, slang) To supply someone with goods or services.
   • That guy didn't get his ticket; can you hook him up for me?

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