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单词 to hook up
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to hook up
to hook up
Originally and chiefly U.S. Cf. sense 4e.
1. intransitive. To get married or become involved in a romantic relationship; to engage in sexual activity. Usually with with.
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the mind > emotion > love > love affair > have affectionate or sexual relationship [verb (intransitive)]
to hook up1903
to get with ——1916
involve1936
to have a thing (with a person)1959
to have something going (with someone)1971
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (intransitive)]
weda1225
marrya1325
spousec1390
to make matrimonyc1400
intermarry1528
contract1530
to give (also conjoin, join, take) in (also to, into) marriage1535
to make a match1547
yoke1567
match1569
mate1589
to go to church (with a person)1600
to put one's neck in a noosec1600
paira1616
to join giblets1647
buckle1693
espouse1693
to change (alter) one's condition1712
to tie the knot1718
to marry out1727
to wedlock it1737
solemnize1748
forgather1768
unite1769
connubiate1814
conjugalize1823
connubialize1870
splice1874
to get hitched up1890
to hook up1903
1903 G. Ade People you Know 69 Then he hooked up with Laura so as to get a real Home.
1950 Gaz. & Bull. (Williamsport, Pa.) 9 June If I weren't married to Miss Mary and didn't love Miss Mary, I would try to hook up with either of them.
1989 S. Forward Toxic Parents ii. xiii. 254 I keep hooking up with these cold, unresponsive guys.
1992 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 30 July 1 I'll look at a guy and wonder what he does... I might make conversation, but the goal isn't to hook up with him.
2005 R. Rossi Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.: Off the Rec. 73 Some [guys] are jerks and just want to hook up, yet some are genuinely sweet and would make the best boyfriend or best friend.
2. intransitive. To meet; to join forces. Usually with with.
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1906 S. Ford Shorty McCabe i. 11 So I hooks up with Leonidas.
1915 Atlanta Constit. 29 Aug. Tom has a proposition that may interest you, Peters, and if not you will know somebody for him to hook up with.
1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 21 June a18 He was forced to hook up with the right-wing religious parties to assemble a parliamentary majority.
1994 Rolling Stone 30 June 29/2 It will be great to hook up and tell stories and exchange dance moves.
2003 R. Candappa Universally Challenged 8 The key point here is to over-exaggerate just how great a time you're having, how stonking the nightlife is, and how you've hooked up with a gang of new mates who it feels like you've known all your life.
3. transitive. To join or bring (a person) together with another person or people; to join or bring (people) together. Also: to provide (a person) with something; to provide something for.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > relate to [verb (transitive)] > bring a person into some relation with another
fellowshipa1382
connect1750
to hook up1909
1909 Chicago Sunday Tribune 28 Mar. (Worker's Mag.) 3/2 They [sc. his employers] hooked him up with another young fellow who knew the practical side of things, and the two worked together in team formation.
1911 Dothan (Alabama) Eagle 9 Dec. Wonder what kind of female..she's going to hook me up with this time?
1983 UNC-CH Campus Slang (Univ. N. Carolina, Chapel Hill) (typescript) Nov. 3 Hook me up with some bills.
1999 Independent (Nexis) 14 Mar. 51 Serendipity has a habit of hooking us up again and each time is like a joyful reunion.
2005 W. J. Smith Enemies in Disguise 33 My friend was just telling me that he needs a haircut, can you hook him up for me?
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to hook up
b. to hook on, to hook in, to hook up, to attach by means of a hook, e.g. a horse to a vehicle, etc.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > harness or yoke
yokeOE
harness13..
cart-saddle1377
join1377
couple1393
enharness1490
benda1522
bind1535
span1550
team1552
spang1580
inyoke1595
trace1605
enclose?1615
gear1638
to get in1687
reharness1775
reyoke1813
to hook up1825
inspan1834
hitch1844
pole1846
stock1909
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [verb (transitive)] > yoke (a horse, cart, or carriage)
join1377
couple1393
bind1535
to put in1709
to put to1732
to hook up1825
inspan1834
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 428 There are many other ways by which the hooking up of the yarns may be effected.
1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful III. viii. 131 Maintop there, hook on your stays.
1844 Mrs. Houstoun Texas & Gulf of Mexico I. 5 After being hooked on to a steamer, we were tugged rapidly down the river.
1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World 16 They saw a horse hooked up to the post of the inn.
1883 Chicago Advance 23 Aug. The livery man hooked up for us as fine a team.
1897 Cavalry Tactics xvi. 112 The breast-harness horses in the cavalry ranks should be hooked in.
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to hook up
e. to hook up: to establish a link with, to make a connection with. Also const. to, and with direct object. Cf. hookup n.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > connect [verb (transitive)] > link together > establish a link with
to link up with1899
tiea1912
to hook up1925
1925 H. Crane Let. 27 Oct. (1965) 218 They want to hook the book up with an illustrious name.
1929 P. G. Wodehouse Mr. Mulliner Speaking v. 172 What I would propose is that we take a short cut through the fields to the station, hook up with the five-fifty express at Goresby, [etc.].
1943 E. C. Wicks et al. Shopwork vi. 113 Whenever electricity is needed for any purpose, the particular job must be wired or ‘hooked-up’ to feed the electrical current to the necessary place.
1953 P. C. Berg Dict. New Words 94/1 Hook-up, v.t., to connect two or more broadcasting systems for the time needed to broadcast a common item on their otherwise different programmes.
1971 Ink 12 June 12/1 David Mercer's moving and intelligent portrait of a Marxist drama critic who can't hook up his ideology with his unresolved feelings towards his impossible working-class father.
1971 M. Tak Truck Talk 84 Hook up, to couple a tractor to a trailer.
1972 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. 31 Aug. 3/4 RCMP and city police forces in Alberta have begun hooking up to a national computer system.
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