hookup
/ˈhʊkʌp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.18 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A connection.
Example Sentences
- "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.”"