HOOKING UP (WITH) Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

hooking up (with)

verb

present participle of hook up (with)

as in latching (on or onto)

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Every Washington Nationals player filtered into the news conference room at Nationals Park on Friday afternoon, taking their seats among Cade Cavalli’s family, team ownership and staff members.

— Danielle Allentuck, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2026
Martha and her mother Maria Alberto Gonzalez and his wife, Catalina Gonzalez, remember taking two buses and a train from their home on the North Side to get to the restaurant in the late 1960s.

— Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2026

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