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hook someone or something up (to someone or something) and hook someone or something up (with someone or something) 1. Lit. to attach someone or something to someone or something. The nurse hooked the patient up to the oxygen tubes. They hooked up the patient with the tubes. hook someone up (with someone) Fig. to arrange for someone to go out with someone. I hooked Alice up with Tom last year, and now they're getting married. hook something up to set something up and get it working. (The object is to be connected to a power supply, electronic network, telephone lines, etc.) Will it take long to hook the telephone up? As soon as they hook up the computer to the network, I can e-mail my friends. hook up (with somebody) to meet someone and spend time together I was traveling alone, but then I hooked up with another woman about my age. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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3 In the Input/Output (I/O) port, you'll hook up the thing that remains. These women may have experienced sexual assault during a hook up but did not label their experiences as such because they believed the behaviors to be normative. |
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