hook up

Speech parts

1. hook up - Noun

2. hook up - Verb

Meaning

connect or link

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

hook-up

Synonyms

join link couple secure concert wire marry connect combine tie ally associate bind cooperate hook

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Antonyms

breaking up end the relationship cease a relationship cancel relationship end a relationship end relationship

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Hypernyms

attach

Examples

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later. Mitch Hedberg

And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere. Lee Ann Womack

Then there is Dick Cheney, who essentially said that if Kerry is voted in as president, terrorism will hit America again. How is that? Is Cheney going to make some calls? Apparently he has the hook up. Margaret Cho

I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there. Larry David

I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18. Talib Kweli

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right. Douglas Coupland

Close letter words and terms

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