hook up (with) v.
1. to meet.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | I Need The Money 79: I hooked up to the old gentleman. | |
| Fighting Blood 241: Anyways, as he’s finished second every time we’ve hooked up, why, my idea is that he’s got enough. | |
| Let Tomorrow Come 42: I take it on the lam, not waitin’ to hook with K.Y. an’ the brat. | |
| Fatal Pay-off 55: I’ve also found out he hooked up with a couple of big guys who were driving around in a black Ford. | |
| (con. 1945) Spearhead 61: Tell the doughs to hook up with third platoon. | |
| (con. 1940s) Autobiog. (1968) 149: Four or five unattached girls who would run around trying to hook up with some guy they knew could really lindy. | |
| Ladies’ Man (1985) 222: You wanna hook up for dinner? | |
| Chili 23: We hooked up. I offered the orchid. | |
| ‘It Was a Good Day’ 🎵 Finally got a call from a girl wanna dig out / Hooked it up on later as I hit the do’. | |
| Corner (1998) 40: But today, he cut early to hook up with Manny Man. | |
| Nature Girl 30: That way they could hook up after work. | |
| ‘Sunset’ in Broken 192: The way users hook up with dealers has changed. |
2. to form a relationship with; sexual or otherwise.
| Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 77: Why don’t you hook up to her yourself, if you are so stuck on her? | |
| ‘Garrote’ in Sandburrs 133: She hooks up wit’ another skate. | |
| ‘Horseshoes’ in Coll. Short Stories (1941) 264: It wasn’t like the last time these two guys had hooked up. | |
| Home to Harlem 259: When I hooks up with a woman I treat her right, but I never let her know everything about me. | |
| Serenade (1985) 292: When we hooked up, we hooked up for good. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Horse’s Mouth (1948) 80: Nice little wife hooked up with a conchie. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Jimmy Brockett 36: Her people were swells and I often wondered how she came to hook up with the old man. | |
| Up the Junction 82: Don’t go meetin’ up with that totter. I don’t want you hookin’ up with no totters. | |
| letter 11 Mar. in Proud Highway (1997) 442: I think you have hooked up with the wrong crowd for the action. | |
| Dopefiend (1991) 206: If we hook up, ain’t no stoppin’ us. | |
| Wiseguy (2001) 108: He was with Johnny Gotti [...] and he was hooked up with the Gambinos. | |
| Straight Outta Compton 78: I’m going to hook up with someone who’ll take care of me. | |
 | The World Don’t Owe Me Nothing 62: So me and Walter hooked up. And them older guys [...], they missed us. | |
| Skinny Dip 234: I’m pretty sure she’s hooked up with that asshole who’s blackmailing us. | |
| Intractable [ebook] It was shortly after the Queen’s visit that Mum hooked up with Roy. | |
| Sun. Times Mag. 19 Dec. 23/3: A young man never knows what kind of girl he is about to hook up with. | |
| (con. 1943) Irish Fandango [ebook] ‘You hooked up with Terry the gutless wonder’. | |
| Cherry 210: ‘Does he know Gilda hooks up with other guys?’. |
3. to get married.
| Girl Proposition 65: [He] was trying to marry a Girl without letting her know anything about it. He was dead willing to Hook Up and the sooner the better, but he was afraid to undertake a Proposal for fear he would Fumble. | |
| A. Mutt in Mutt Complete Compilation (1977) 22: I’ll pop the question to Miss Mazuma this morning. We’ll hook up and enter the race of life as a stable entry. | |
| (con. 1918) Mattock 280: He’ll hook up with her as sure as God made sour apples. | |
| (ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 197: I got spliced [...] hooked up with a little chorus cutie. | |
| Rebellion of Leo McGuire (1953) 58: You’re plumb nuts if you get yourself hooked up before you’re twenty-one. |
4. (US) to corrupt, to suborn.
| ‘Rain Check’ in Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm 301: If you try to hook up any more of my players, I won’t do a thing but beat that big nose of yours all over your fat face. |
5. to introduce, to bring two parties together in a commercial transaction, to connect.
| Fatal Pay-off 56: Brandt wondered if the Ford could be tabbed. Madden wasn’t sure. ‘Not unless we can hook it up with two big, light-haired men.’. | |
| Blackstone Rangers 3: ‘This man can relieve a lot of pressure. He wants to talk to Jeff or Gene. So hook him up’. | |
| Spidertown (1994) 15: I know Firebug be hookin’ you up wif’ them dogs he knows. | |
| Westsiders 217: Can you hook me up with the people you strip for? | |
| (con. 1973) Johnny Porno 123: Just something I want to propose to the man. Can you hook me up with him? | |
| ‘Broken’ in Broken 11: [T]he Sinaloa people would hook him up with a lot more weight. | |
| Orphan Road 88: ‘I met a guy in this bar I used to hang out in, he hooked me up with Luchese’s people’. |
6. (US Und.) to involve a fellow criminal in or to advise of a potentially lucrative scheme.
| et al. DAUL 101/1: Hook up with. 1. To join in criminal partnership. | |
| Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) 129: One of them guards [...] was a tier-to-tier pedlar. Sure ’nough. That were when I hooked up with him. I’m the contact man on the outside now. | |
| (con. 1975–6) Steel Toes 114: One thing about Syd [...] she don’t mind sharin’ the action, we’ll get hooked up. |
7. (US Und.) to work as a prostitute.
| Last Toke 46: Weren’t no ho afore she come here an’ hooked up fo’ us. |
8. (also hook) to be sexually active with someone, whether kissing or having sex.
| (con. 1950s) Whoreson 115: I’m going to hook up with you now. | |
| Campus Sl. Mar. 5: Hook — to kiss passionately. ‘You can hear them upstairs hookin’.’. | |
| Campus Sl. Apr. 5: hook up – engage in some sort of sexual activity with another, from flirtation to intercourse. | |
| Shame the Devil 16: Not me, man, I hooked you up! | |
| ‘Sweet, Tight and Hella Stupid’ in S.F. University High School Update Mar.–Apr. 2: hooking up – flirting with, maybe even kissing (always implies more than that, but it’s never true). | |
| Nature Girl 304: Fry knew they were hooking up late at night [...] No self-control whatsoever. | |
| Pineapple Street 201: ‘Did you sleep at a dude’s?’ Cord asked. ‘Did you hook up with someone?’. |
9. (US campus) to give, to hand over, to provide.
| Campus Sl. Apr. 5: hook up with – to help someone out. | |
| (con. 1985–90) In Search of Respect 141: He used to hook me up outta sight. | |
| You Got Nothing Coming 35: How ’bout I hook you up with a pencil and, say, half a pad of writing paper? |
10. to obtain drugs for someone.
| Workin’ It 72: She’s the one that hooked me up with heroin for the first time. | |
| (con. 1986) Sweet Forever 12: ‘He’s gonna hook us up?’ ‘Got a nice, fat gram put aside for us.’. | |
| ‘Tying Off’ on Inter-zone.org 🌐 From his point of view this was a pretty fucked up corner to hook up with some unknown Mexican as it was the junction of Ranier Ave with like four other streets. | |
| (con. 1973) Johnny Porno 95: She hooked him up with an ounce of Panama Red. |
11. (US black) to create something according to one’s own taste, e.g. clothing, house decoration, holiday plans.
| ‘Y?’ 🎵 LabCabinCalifornia [album] He hooked up quick with the influential slang / gangsta-strow cornrolls the whole shabbang / braggin’ n boastin poststandin’ n braggin how we ’posed to be / hangin’ with baby gees I was baggin / like why you tryin’ hooride up on the bandwagon. | |
| Corner (1998) 143: Soon as I hook it up so that he’s staying somewhere with a phone. |
12. (US) to take an academic course.
| Love Is a Racket 50: Took the money I made running for him and hooked up some extension courses at Cal State, Long Beach. |
13. (US teen, also hook it up) to get more than one is entitled to, to get something for free.
| Grand Central Winter (1999) 31: By three o’clock I had been hooked up with the works. | |
| Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 hookin’ it up Definition: [...] 2. to use one’s ‘connections’ in the scene Example 2. Don’t worry ’bout gettin into da club baby, im hookin’ it up fo’ us. |
14. (US prison) to get an address and phone number.
| Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Hook-up: [...] (3) To obtain someone’s address and phone number. |