What does hookup mean?
Hookup means (sometimes attributive) A connection..
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/ˈhʊkʌp/ · noun
(sometimes attributive) A connection..
The plumber came to fix the sewer hookup.
I need to buy some hookup wire.
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.
It is easy to write off Grindr — a location-based dating application for gay men — as a hookup application because, well, that is what it is. […] Grindr’s main purpose is to facilitate hookups that are “spontaneous and intimate,” he said.
The predominant way of finding a hookup or sexual partner would be going online.
It could simply be that “gay men are early adopters,” he said. “I joke that the wheel was invented by a gay man so he could get to his hookup faster.”
I bought more bungee cords and made my way to my hookup’s house via slower, more manageable back roads.
Use hookup when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hookup means (sometimes attributive) A connection..
Common synonyms include fling, bedfellow, bedmate, fuck.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The plumber came to fix the sewer hookup.
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