Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hook-up
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a satellite hook-up
▪ As well as campsites, there are hook-ups for RVs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As it was, we could barely hear the weather guy over the lousy phone hook-up.
▪ Lissa's money gave out, and she told me over an international phone hook-up that she wasn't interested any more.
▪ Offshore commissioning and hook-up is progressing and production and injection wells are being drilled on the Shell-operated project.
▪ The contract is for the engineering, procurement, construction and offshore installation, hook-up and commissioning of the satellite platform.
▪ The mechanical card system does not require wiring, batteries or computer hook-ups.
▪ Touring pitches with hard standing, electric hook-ups and hot showers.
▪ Water and electric hook-ups are $ 12 a night.
Wikipedia
Hook-up
Hook-up or hook up has several meanings:
- Making a connection between components in a system
- An electrical connection
- An electrical connector
- A connection to water, sewer, or electrical utilities at a campsite
- Meet up, or making a connection between people
- Slang term for courtship, especially of short duration
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Casual relationship or casual sex
- Hookup culture
- In urban slang, a discount
- In urban slang, a drug dealer
- Hook-Ups, an American skateboard brand
- Hooking Up, a collection of essays and short stories by American author Tom Wolfe
Usage examples of "hook-up".
Christa do the actual hook-up of the amplifier and the stereo, insisting that if she did not start learning about electronics immediately, she would be lost in rock and roll.
Yes, he had a nice slot for the Busted Flush, one that would take up to a sixty-footer, one with water, electric, and phone hook-up and about a hundred feet from the facilities.
The familiar succession of clanks, rattles, and thumps followed as the hook-up men clipped the launching bar on the Tomcat's nose gear to the catapult shuttle--riding in its slot on the flight deck.
The worldwide TV hook-up was minutes away and both were ready, wearing semiceremonial dress, old-style lounge suits with washable shirts.