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 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 The broader argument for the Sky-ITV deal is that this is not consolidation for its own sake, but a necessary response to a market utterly transformed by platforms that barely existed the last time British broadcasters discussed hooking up. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 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 To make entertaining more fun, plug your speaker or outdoor TV into an electrical outlet, or make a frozen margarita after hooking up your blender. — Sarah Scott, Southern Living, 28 June 2026 There were endless questions to be answered — namely, how Amanda and West could betray Ciara Miller and Kyle Cooke by hooking up behind their backs … and lying to everyone about it. — Sarah Hearon, Entertainment Weekly, 10 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
  • The tens of thousands of people traveling at once and the road closures near the stadium and Atlanta park made driving very unattractive.
    — Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Bauers then crushed a three-run homer to right, the ball leaving his bat at 110 mph and traveling 424 feet, for a 6-0 lead.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of traveling
Verb
  • The rest of the party is mostly silent, forever associating itself with a movement that’s intent on destroying the centrist parts of the Democratic Party.
    — Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2026
  • Meanwhile, the connection between hair shedding and ferritin is well documented, with studies associating low ferritin levels with telogen effluvium, a form of temporary hair loss.
    — Fiorella Valdesolo, Allure, 15 July 2026
Definition of associating
Verb
  • His first two features were loose, low-budget films starring himself and made by messing around with friends; they were built on spontaneity and the belief that a movie reveals itself in the edit.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 July 2026
  • That sounds way better than messing around with a complex spider web of pole segments, elastic cords, sleeves and clips.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 July 2026
Definition of messing around
Verb
  • That digitized some experiences without necessarily connecting them.
    — Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
  • El-Sayed’s efforts to weave a seamless narrative connecting AIPAC to his struggle against wealthy interests has built the Israel lobby into an almost-supernatural force controlling American politics behind the scenes.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
Definition of connecting
Verb
  • Persistent heatwaves are not only driving up the cost of keeping society running and disrupting companies' production and operations, but are also putting pressure on European economic growth.
    — , CNBC, 4 Aug. 2026
  • There are also plenty of trainers – two-time Triple Crown winner Bob Baffert among them – who rarely balk at running Derby winners back two weeks later in the Preakness.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of running
Verb
  • Videos on Iranian social media showed many women at the cafes flouting mandatory veiling laws, and crowds mixing freely.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Kilgore, whom the team took in the fifth round, has been mixing into a couple of different roles for the Bills early in camp, with safety being his usual home during team drills.
    — Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of mixing
Verb
  • Curtis still felt strongly about Georgia, but the idea of joining Vanderbilt began to gain steam.
    — Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 30 July 2026
  • North America's soccer body on Thursday rejected FIFA president Gianni Infantino's plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private equity investors, joining European nations in opposition.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 30 July 2026
Definition of joining
Verb
  • This latest ambitious project with Fred comes on the heels of Latin Mafia partying with Rosalía and collaborating with acts like Kevin Abstract, Dominic Fike, Álvaro Diaz, Tainy, and Yandel.
    — Lucas Villa, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2026
  • This isn't mere nostalgia; artists are actively creating fresh, relevant material, often collaborating with contemporary producers.
    — David Deal, Forbes.com, 29 July 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 4 Aug. 2026.

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