EGAVE

hookup

About 0.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A connection.
    The plumber came to fix the sewer hookup.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun A sexual partner.
    The predominant way of finding a hookup or sexual partner would be going online.

Similar words

assemblage people conjunction liaison bond plan linkup copulative connect couple

Often followed by

to wire of with and for is sites in

Word family

hookups

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