hooks up

verb

present tense third-person singular of hook up
as in travels
to come or be together as friends former classmates who hooked up and started a business together

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Recent Examples of hooks up Tony contains details directly pulled from Kitchen Confidential, including a memorable moment in which one of the cooks (Leo Woodall) hooks up with a bride who visits the restaurant immediately following her own wedding. — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026 And Cody still comes out before the season starts and takes BP, hooks up the kids with some Nike stuff. — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 17 July 2026 Its lightweight frame packages a swift 5-minute charge option that hooks up 3 hours of extra listening, Multi-Point device switching, and Voice Aware side-tone monitoring for phone calls. — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 6 July 2026 Kimbo also hooks up a standard electrical system with 2-kWh, 12-V lithium battery, 240-W Renogy solar panel setup, integrated wiring and shore power hookup. — New Atlas, 26 Mar. 2026 Nike consistently hooks up the University of Oregon‘s athletic programs with exclusive sneakers because of their longstanding relationship, and the newest spoils to emerge come via Nike’s most futuristic new basketball sneaker. — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 9 Mar. 2026 And yet Guy still takes Kevis home to his apartment and hooks up with her! — Lily Osler, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2025 Meanwhile, his sister Audrey (anatasia Phillips) secretly hooks up with his best friend Backwoods (Daniel Petronijevic), while beloved site manager Chelsea (Jennifer Spence) faces an uncomfortable truth when Jenn Conch (Jennifer Irwin) returns to Imperial Valley and wants to fit in. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2025 Meanwhile, Jeremiah continues to struggle with his breakup from Belly and hooks up with Steven and Taylor's friends. — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hooks up
  1. travels
  2. associates
  3. bonds
  4. runs
  5. connects
  6. mixes
  7. joins
  8. collaborates
Verb
  • For her cookbook, Pereira developed and perfected 100 original recipes with easy-to-find ingredients that infuse accessible dishes with rich flavors inspired by her Portuguese-Goan heritage and travels around the world.
    — Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The Glenwood Whitewater Activity Area has a standing river wave that draws kayakers and stand-up paddleboarders, and the river, which travels through dramatic Glenwood Canyon, is a top place for travelers interested in white-water rafting.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of travels
Verb
  • What being Southern meant to his father—and the values Duane associates with being a Southern gentleman.
    — Sid Evans, Southern Living, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The productivity boom everyone associates with the personal computer didn’t actually show up in the macro data until 15 years after the PC was commercialized.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 14 July 2026
Definition of associates
Verb
  • Gaby bonds with a new, albeit reluctant, patient, Maya (Sherry Cola), only to be devastated when Maya takes her own life.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026
  • In the film, Field portrays Tova, the cleaning lady who bonds with the somewhat cranky Marcellus, an octopus wise behind his years, in Netflix’s screen adaptation of Shelby Van Pelt’s bestselling novel.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 8 July 2026
Definition of bonds
Verb
  • The center runs 24 hours a day for 362 days each year, allowing United to cycle pilots through training without slowing its broader flight operations.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Both schools also made deep postseason runs thanks, in part, to their ground attacks.
    — Dan Albano, Oc Register, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of runs
Verb
  • The athlete had a rare cancer known as nasopharyngeal cancer, which affects the tissue that connects the back of the nose to the back of the mouth, per Cleveland Clinic.
    — Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The Bab el-Mandeb Strait, is located between Yemen and the Horn of Africa, connects the Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea to the Red Sea and, farther north, the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of connects
Verb
  • The footage mixes high-speed chases and explosive action with comedic beats, framing a story built around chaos, mismatched heroism and rising stakes as the mission unfolds.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Everyone seemingly watches them — and a little tennis — with a $23 Honey Deuce in one hand, swaying to DJ Trizz’s mixes on the sound system.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of mixes
Verb
  • The water tower joins two other places on the estate — the Gardens House, which sleeps eight, and the Folly, which sleeps six — that are available to rent.
    — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Tromp, familiar to National League rival Atlanta Braves fans from his multiple stints there, joins the Triple-A Oklahoma City Comets.
    — Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of joins
Verb
  • Film Independent also collaborates with other Los Angeles arts nonprofits.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2026
  • In addition to the Formula One series, Glenfiddich also collaborates with Aston Martin's road car division on ultra-premium vintage releases aimed at collectors.
    — Emily Price, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of collaborates

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“Hooks up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hooks%20up. Accessed 24 Aug. 2026.

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