hooking up

verb

present participle of hook up
as in traveling
to come or be together as friends former classmates who hooked up and started a business together

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Recent Examples of hooking up The passage about the group of hippies going out to the pueblo and giving the Native kids LSD and hooking up on the tribe’s sacred ground until they get run off is priceless. — Maggie McGowan, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026 After that finale breakup comes another big plot moment for Samir — hooking up with Billie. — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2026 The mood is already ruined after you get busted hooking up in a bar's bathroom. — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026 Cohn lived a secret life, hooking up regularly with gay hustlers. — Kai Bird, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026 This is like the complete inverse of Tom Sandoval and Raquel hooking up at Coachella. — Marlow Stern, Variety, 30 July 2026 Striking a balance between mellowness and fun is an imperative for a cohort that’s drinking less, hooking up less, and staying in more. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026 As the arrows on the chart indicate, the red line (sellers) is hooking down and the green line (buyers) is hooking up. — Nishant Pant, CNBC, 7 July 2026 The term first popped up during the June 21 episode of Love Island USA, when Kenzie Annis and Corbin Mims were shown hooking up in bed. — Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 29 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hooking up
  1. traveling
  2. associating
  3. messing around
  4. connecting
  5. running
  6. mixing
  7. joining
  8. collaborating
Verb
  • That could be why interest in traveling in November is surging, too.
    — Marnie Hunter, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Cameras went behind the scenes while Earle (second place to mirrorball winner Robert Irwin) was traveling around with the live tour.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of traveling
Verb
  • The web now contains one more independent page associating that company with a particular problem, category or use case.
    — Mat Golubovic, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • For creators, attending a Grand Slam can signal something to their audiences beyond an interest in tennis; for brands, the appeal lies partly in associating themselves with that cachet.
    — Jessica Schiffer, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of associating
Verb
  • Both of France’s sons seem to appreciate imaginative play over messing around with action figures, something that makes perfect sense given France’s own love for the arts.
    — Marah Eakin, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Take note at the point in a song when the real dancers stop messing around.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of messing around
Verb
  • At Crystal Bridges, however, the house is considered within a wider continuum of American art — connecting what came out of the country’s ground with what its artists and designers imagined from it.
    — Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The family spent three years completely renovating the space, partnering with Milan’s Palomba e Serafini to create a restrained, contemporary space with bold features including a chic spiral staircase connecting the entrance to the mezzanine.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of connecting
Verb
  • Detroit, of course, still ranks as one of the better base-running teams in the league.
    — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Before running for governor, Acton had been recruited by DeWine in 2019 to lead the Ohio Department of Health while serving as an associate professor of public health at Ohio State University.
    — Gary Fields, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of running
Verb
  • In another study, mixing in lentils with rice or instant potatoes resulted in lower blood sugar than eating the rice or potatoes alone.
    — Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 4 Sep. 2026
  • By taking stem cells from a host’s own body and encouraging them to differentiate before mixing them with a commercially available, soluble matrix gel, researchers may have cracked the most critical problems in the transplant process.
    — Mike McRae September 02, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of mixing
Verb
  • The agreement also includes an additional $1 billion in equity to retain Hugging Face employees joining Nvidia.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Belkin is joining companies like BMX, Kuxiu, and Zens with the launch of its first power banks featuring semi-solid-state battery technology.
    — Andrew Liszewski, The Verge, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of joining
Verb
  • More than a manufacturer, Brandix supports global brands throughout the entire product development process, collaborating on designs that meet end consumers’ rapidly changing demands.
    — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Everyone kind of knew each other, creators were constantly collaborating, and there was a real sense of community.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, Allure, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of collaborating

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“Hooking up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hooking%20up. Accessed 10 Sep. 2026.

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