hookup

• hook-up

Deverbal from hook up.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʊkʌp/

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hookup (plural hookups)

1. (sometimes attributive) A connection.

   The plumber came to fix the sewer hookup.

   I need to buy some hookup wire.

2. (slang) A brief sexual relationship or encounter.

   Synonym: fling

   Hyponyms: one-night stand, one-minute stand

   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.

   • 2013 March 10, Jenna Wortham, “How Grindr Is Changing the Way We Connect”, in New York Times‎:

     Grindr’s main purpose is to facilitate hookups that are “spontaneous and intimate,” he said.

3. (slang) A sexual partner.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sexual partner

   The predominant way of finding a hookup or sexual partner would be going online.

   • 2015, Tyler Oakley, Binge, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     I bought more bungee cords and made my way to my hookup’s house via slower, more manageable back roads.