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 Cade Depriest hooks up with a Gunn again for 34 yards and Winter Park is on the move back inside the red zone. — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hooks up
  1. travels
  2. associates
  3. bonds
  4. runs
  5. connects
  6. mixes
  7. joins
  8. collaborates
Verb
  • This isn't too much to ask for given its position given its Little Cottonwood Canyon position, which can enhance snowfall when Pacific moisture travels inland and reaches the Wasatch Mountains.
    — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Like Mary Ventura, Esther travels down a tunnel before greeting her mother at its end.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of travels
Verb
  • Innova also associates afternoon snacking specifically with satisfaction, while other dayparts lean toward refreshment or indulgence.
    — Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The Shiji associates Sun Tzu with Wu’s campaigns against its powerful rival Chu, including the campaign that culminated in the capture of the Chu capital, Ying, in 506 bce.
    — Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of associates
Verb
  • Mia, the kindly next-door neighbor, and her daughter, Noora (Henrikke Lund-Olsen), who bonds with Elia at school.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Frozen soil that has held buildings, roads and pipelines for decades can start to sink as temperatures rise and the ice that bonds soil particles weakens.
    — Ming Xiao, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of bonds
Verb
  • If your supplement stack already runs the length of your bathroom counter, adding another capsule for hair growth deserves scrutiny.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Stretching across the base of the windshield, the panoramic iDrive display projects information onto a black band that runs from one A-pillar to the other.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of runs
Verb
  • In Busan, Kim wants to meet international co-producers and financiers as well as programmers from festivals abroad, and to test whether the film’s theme connects with audiences beyond Korea.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Spanning 40 miles as the crow flies, the Suwalki Gap is a corridor of land, running along the Polish/Lithuanian border, that connects the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to Belarus.
    — Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of connects
Verb
  • The collection mixes authentic OshKosh details like denim and hickory stripe, reimagined with signature Sergio Hudson design elements.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The doc, for which Shirai and Hiroshi Harahandled cinematography, with Frederick Shanahan as editor, mixes intimate vérité with poetic observation to reveal more about a sport that often seems particularly foreign to those outside of Japan.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of mixes
Verb
  • Majority whip Tom Emmer joins us as Republicans fight to keep control of the House.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026
  • The novela also joins two of Brazil’s most popular actors as a majorly successful romantic pairing, with Colin’s Adriana falling in love with Chay Suede’s idealist lawyer Pedro.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of joins
Verb
  • And Jeremy Allen White is Jeff Horwitz, the Wall Street Journal tech reporter with whom Haugen collaborates on an explosive series of articles informally titled The Facebook Files, exposing the toxic culture behind the company’s stratospheric reach.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026
  • She was shortlisted for the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize in 2019 and collaborates regularly with JW Anderson on bespoke ceramic commissions and works.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 4 Oct. 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 14 Oct. 2026.

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