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hookups

hookups is the plural 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.

Questions about hookups

What is hookups the plural of?
Hookups is the plural of hookup.

Words near hookups in the dictionary

  1. hooktop heng
  2. hookum
  3. hookum-snivey
  4. hookums
  5. hookup
  6. hookups
  7. Hookway
  8. Hookways
  9. hookwise
  10. Hookwood
  11. hookworm

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hookups (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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