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Definition of hooked up
hook up
- get a good word in for yourself to a person you're interested in dating.
Can you get me the hook-up with that girl over there?
Last edited on Jul 24 2002. Submitted by Brittney from Pine Bluff, AR, USA on Jul 24 2002.
noun
- a person who provides illegal drugs.
Do you need a hookup?
- See more words with the same meaning: to deal drugs, drug dealer.
Last edited on May 10 1998. Submitted by Rogue from CA, USA on May 10 1998.
- a connection for merchandise. Especially used for illegal merchandise.
Want beer? I've got the hook-up.
I got the hook-up on that cell phone you wanted.
- See more words with the same meaning: business (related to).
Last edited on Aug 09 2010. Submitted by Audrey M. from UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA on Jan 22 1999.
- sexual activity, though typically not coitus. Usually implies more than kissing or "making out." Making out + touching breasts would qualify as a "hook up."
Citation from ""Bachelor Pad" premieres", Salon, Chris Le, Aug 9 2010 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: sex or not-quite-sex (ambiguous terms).
Last edited on Aug 09 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 09 2010.
verb
- to meet up with someone.
I hooked up with the rest of my group at his Halloween party.
- See more words with the same meaning: to meet with.
Last edited on May 10 1998. Submitted by Rogue from CA, USA on May 10 1998.
verb - intransitive
- to engage in (usually non-committal) sexual activity, though typically not coitus. Usually implies more than kissing or "making out." Making out + touching breasts would qualify as "hooking up."
They hooked up last night after the party.
Citation from "Sin-Say-Shun Awards Afterparty", Party Down (TV), Season 1 Episode 5 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.
Citation from "Of Mice & Jazz-Kwon Do", Happy Endings (TV), Season 1 Episode 6 (2011) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.
Citation from "You've Got Male", Happy Endings (TV), Season 1 Episode 9 (2011) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.
Citation from "Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls", American Dad (TV), Season 6 Episode 3 (2010) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: sex or not-quite-sex (ambiguous terms).
Last edited on Nov 03 2011. Submitted by Rogue from CA, USA on May 10 1998.
- to enter into a relationship.
How did your parents hook up?
Citation from "Francine's Flashback", American Dad (TV), Season 1 Episode 4 (2005) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.Last edited on Nov 20 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 20 2011.
verb - transitive
- a request, when used alone.
You've got chocolate? Hook me up!
- See more words with the same meaning: requests (list of).
Last edited on Oct 01 2001. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 01 2001.
- to give.
He hooked me up with some dinner.
Citation from "Pilot", Alphas (TV), Season 1 Episode 1 (2011) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: to give.
Last edited on Jul 24 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 01 2001.
- to put a person in a favorable position.
Citation from "Lobsterfest", Bob's Burgers (TV), Season 1 Episode 12 (2011) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.
Citation from "Pilot", Alphas (TV), Season 1 Episode 1 (2011) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: to help.
Last edited on Jul 25 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on May 20 2011.
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Other terms relating to 'business (related to)': | |
| Definitions include: clothing | |
| Definitions include: McDonald's. | |
| Definitions include: high-paying, with good benefits, etc. | |
| Definitions include: to do nothing of value. | |
| Definitions include: a couch on which prospective employees are expected to provide sexual favors in order to secure the position. | |
| Definitions include: speech commonly found in corporations, often filled with buzzwords, jargon, and "verbed" nouns. | |
| Definitions include: the main source of income for a business. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "patient fell over", a notation used by doctors in the UK on medical charts. | |
| Definitions include: To copy or plagiarize, commonly used by emcees to indicate a plagiarist. | |
| Definitions include: busy. | |
| Definitions include: | |
| Definitions include: a bathroom break. | |
| Definitions include: in marketing, a satisfied customer who tells others about his positive experience with products of a particular brand name. | |
| Definitions include: "I see". | |
| Definitions include: to take something vertical, i.e. to upper management. | |
Other terms relating to 'requests (list of)': | |
| Definitions include: messy, trashy, or dilapidated. | |
Other terms relating to 'sex or not-quite-sex (ambiguous terms)': | |
| Definitions include: female genitalia. | |
| Definitions include: a period of time during which one engages sexually with another person. | |
| Definitions include: a last-minute or previously unplanned request to meet up with someone with the intention of having sex (i.e. getting booty.) | |
| Definitions include: a slice of paper. | |
| Definitions include: sex or sexual play. | |
| Definitions include: simulated sex, without the removal of clothes. | |
| Definitions include: sexual activity. | |
| Definitions include: to engage in sexual activity. | |
| Definitions include: to have sexual intercourse. | |
| Definitions include: abbreviated form of "hook up". | |
| Definitions include: to kiss passionately; "make out". | |
| Definitions include: To hook up in a sexual manner and spend the night with someone. A person who shacks-up may be referred to as a "shacker." | |
| Definitions include: to engage in sexual physical contact, usually intercourse. | |
| Definitions include: sexual activity. | |
| Definitions include: a session of sex involving 3 people. | |
Other terms relating to 'to deal drugs, drug dealer': | |
| Definitions include: to sell drugs. | |
| Definitions include: drug dealer. | |
| Definitions include: a person who sells fake drugs. | |
| Definitions include: It means to work hard and get some money. | |
| Definitions include: Selling drugs. | |
| Definitions include: a store that sells drug paraphernalia, such as bowls and bongs for marijuana smoking. | |
| Definitions include: a person whose business involves marijuana. | |
| Definitions include: a person who makes methamphetamine. | |
| Definitions include: a person who sells you drugs. | |
| Definitions include: to sell illegal drugs. | |
| Definitions include: one who sells illegal drugs | |
| Definitions include: a female senior citizen who sells OxyContin. | |
| Definitions include: someone who sells drugs and other illegal substances. | |
| Definitions include: a drug dealer. | |
| Definitions include: to be successful. | |
Other terms relating to 'to give': | |
| Definitions include: to smoke marijuana. | |
| Definitions include: to give to; hand over. | |
| Definitions include: to give. | |
| Definitions include: to fight. | |
| Definitions include: to say or give. | |
| Definitions include: to begin taking effect. | |
| Definitions include: to take drugs, usually LSD ("acid") or Ecstasy (MDMA). | |
| Definitions include: to leave. | |
| Definitions include: to yell at someone; "blow up". | |
| Definitions include: an event with a displeasing outcome. | |
| Definitions include: to give beer to. | |
| Definitions include: a contraction for "give me". | |
| Definitions include: to decline in one's talent or skill. | |
Other terms relating to 'to help': | |
| Definitions include: to applaud. | |
| Definitions include: to leave. | |
| Definitions include: to do a solid (a favor). | |
| Definitions include: to look out for one's interests or well-being. | |
| Definitions include: to contribute to a group cause. | |
| Definitions include: to suffer a task or experience in order to shield other members of some group from the displeasure; "take one for the team". | |
| Definitions include: to work to help a person, cause, etc. | |
| Definitions include: to get someone out of jail by posting bail. | |
Other terms relating to 'to meet with': | |
| Definitions include: to examine schedules to determine a time when two or more people would be available to meet for some purpose. | |
Slang terms with the same root words
Other terms relating to 'hook': | |
| Definitions include: A jerk or bastard. | |
| Definitions include: "hell". | |
| Definitions include: one's home, or place of living | |
| Definitions include: house. | |
| Definitions include: abbreviated form of "hook up". | |
| Definitions include: A ghetto form of "please give me." | |
| Definitions include: addicted. | |
| Definitions include: Hooking is the slang word for understanding or knowing. | |
| Definitions include: completely. | |
| Definitions include: See hook up. | |
| Definitions include: see off the hook. | |
| Definitions include: hands. | |
| Definitions include: extreme; wild; awesome. | |
| Definitions include: alternate spelling of off the hook. | |
| Definitions include: Off the hook. So bad ass that it's out of control! | |
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Other terms relating to 'up': | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: to misbehave. | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up." | |
| Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc. | |
| Definitions include: doing something emphatically. | |
| Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant. | |
| Definitions include: to increase. | |
| Definitions include: to contribute one's share. | |
| Definitions include: to mess up. | |
| Definitions include: to make something like ass. | |
| Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird". | |
| Definitions include: strange / stupid. | |
| Definitions include: a situation that could end in multiple outcomes, each of which is equally likely. | |
| Definitions include: to move away from. | |
| Definitions include: to call someone to halt, particularly when the intention is to rob. | |
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