hook up
A versatile American slang term with several meanings: primarily it means a casual sexual encounter or the act of connecting with someone for sex without commitment.
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Born ~1980 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
if we ever hook up please ignore the shelf full of skulls on my wall. yours won’t be added to it I promise
hey you don't need physical media believe it or not you really don't you just need good storage and drm-free file formats and like mp3 players and hook up a pc to your tv for video you can have a really good comprom…
He's a 10 but he doesn't want Giovanni and Frobert from Animal Crossing to hook up. #AnimalCrossing #Giovanni #Bird #Frobert #Frog
Think my roommates boyfriend knows that we hook up constantly? Or that they keep messages muted/deleted so when they visit they won’t find anything? 🫣
Her art is actually what made me hook up with Human!Radioapple really, How many foes and friends have left my side? I guess It’s the natural order of things, and I will remain here, simply wishing for her happiness.…
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A versatile American slang term with several meanings: primarily it means a casual sexual encounter or the act of connecting with someone for sex without commitment. More broadly it can mean to meet up with someone socially, or to supply someone with goods (sometimes drugs). The sexual sense is now the dominant meaning in contemporary American English.
They had a hook up after the party and agreed it was nothing serious.
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To sell or supply something.
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To associate or socialize with someone.
“if we ever hook up please ignore the shelf full of skulls on my wall. yours won’t be added to it I promise”
— Bluesky· May 2026“hey you don't need physical media believe it or not you really don't you just need good storage and drm-free file formats and like mp3 players and hook up a pc to your tv for video you can have a really good compromise you don't actually need to go ALL the way back”
— Bluesky· May 2026“He's a 10 but he doesn't want Giovanni and Frobert from Animal Crossing to hook up. #AnimalCrossing #Giovanni #Bird #Frobert #Frog”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Think my roommates boyfriend knows that we hook up constantly? Or that they keep messages muted/deleted so when they visit they won’t find anything? 🫣”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Her art is actually what made me hook up with Human!Radioapple really, How many foes and friends have left my side? I guess It’s the natural order of things, and I will remain here, simply wishing for her happiness. 😌🙏❤️”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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To hook something together.
“if my adhd brain would let me figure out how to hook up/work the pressure washer i would be unstoppable”
— Bluesky· May 2026“just remembered my wife wants me to hook up the server and i'm weirdly anxious about it like i expect it to not work or something”
— Bluesky· May 2026“That reminds me. I saw a little clip this week of a company starting to beta test vibrators designed for vaginal or anal anatomy that hook up to a music source.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“@kittyswallows20.bsky.social Saw you bombed some of my comments on one of your OF friends but like you see I ain't paying for shit. So honest hook up or chat yes. Pay for looking at pics hahaha.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“ggghfhhfhggghf there's gotta be SOME cute boys to hook up with in vermont fuckkkkkk <:(”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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