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hooks up

vb. (en-third-person singularhook up)

Usage examples of "hooks up".

I understand they're clever devils here and they got American boats and European boats with whole different electrical frequencies and they got to jury-rig a new line for every boat that hooks up, but I'm a fireman and I know hot lines and water.

Some snot-nosed tech plugs you into a simple visualization program, hooks up an IV feed and a physical-therapy program so your body don't rot, and then leaves you imprisoned inside your own skull.

Meat hung on hooks up by the freezing pipes, and down lower crates of fresh vegetables rested.

She took it up, slipped her arms into it and quickly snapped the little hooks up the front.

It would take two or three hours to get a boat and hooks up there, and you couldn't do anything much at night anyway.

We fought it in order to create the cheap digital -wristwatch, the home Ping-Pong game that hooks up to one's TV, the pocket calculator.

We fought it in order to create the cheap digital-wristwatch, the home Ping-Pong game that hooks up to one's TV, the pocket calculator.

What happens when one person is AC and he or she hooks up with someone operating in DC mode, only focused on one direction?

Then we hooks up one them chickens and throw it out there and we sits back and has us a drink or two, me all the time talkin trash 'bout that five hundred dollar and Smiley grinnin like he does.

Clever on the ropes and in the clinches, ripping those hooks up into the body, snuffing and grunting with the effort.

As the captain watched dumbfounded, six of the boats came up to the side of the tanker and started throwing grappling hooks up to its side rails.

The soldiers flung grappling hooks up over the walls, began to scale them.

Then she hooks up the pint of blood and turns a plastic stopcock, starting the flow.