单词 | to hook up |
释义 | > as lemmasto 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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? 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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