Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (UK black) to meet with; to get in touch with.

2005		Jade LB Keisha the Sket (2021) 39: ‘u go link a bre or sumfin gurl?’.
2005		Jade LB Keisha the Sket (2021) 39: ‘leme link dat boi das bin bellin off ma line’.
2018-20		T. Thorne (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Link - make contact with, meet, collect.
2020		G. Krauze What They Was 71: I say fam I wanna lick this pagan down [...] and he says [...] come link me in Paddington.

2. (UK black) to form a relationship with.

2008		A. Wheatle Dirty South 99: I’m just kinda wondering why you linked him in the first place.
2016		Independent 5 Jan. 🌐 Many other [teenage] words belong to MLE—multi-ethnic or multicultural London English— [...] Among the most pervasive are bruv, mate, bare, fam, gwop, or peas (money), and chirpsin’, linkin’, and lipsin’—flirting, dating, and kissing respectively.
2016		A. Wheatle Crongton Knights 20: ‘The only time I’m gonna be chirping and linking with any girl is when I’m touching fourth base with her and getting my strokes on’.
2020		G. Krauze What They Was 53: Who is she anyway, I say. Just some ting I been linking, Taz says.

3. (UK Black) to identify.

2015

M. Dargg ‘Upsuh’ 🎵 Don’t rat / Because I got linked for the straps.

4. see link it v.