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Definition of Hook up
1. Verb. Connect or link. "Hook up the components of the new sound system"
Definition of Hook up
1. Verb. (transitive) to assemble the parts of a mechanism, especially by connecting wires. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) to connect to a power supply or a signal source. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive slang used with "with") to form an association (with) someone. ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive slang used with "with") to have a casual sexual experience with another person, usually without any future relationship intended. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hook Up
Literary usage of Hook up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1909)
"His duty was to hook up the machine, and the holster runs the machine back towards
locomotive, so as to make room for the next pile of dirt. ..."
2. Operative Surgery by Frederic Carpenter Skey (1801)
"assistant should hook up as much as possible of the anterior margin of the axilla.
The sheath of the vessels and nerves being exposed, A. Artery.—B. Vein. ..."
3. Boy Activity Projects by Samuel A. Blackburn (1918)
"hook up OF WIRELESS STATION. Presuming that all instruments have been made or
... We will now hook up the receiving set which is entirely separate from the ..."
4. "WWJ--The Detroit News": The History of Radiophone Broadcasting by the by Detroit news (1922)
"... Schematic Showing Hook-up of Intermediate Set. ... I —~ J Schematic Showing
Hook-up of Advanced Set ..."
5. The Book of Radio: A Complete, Simple Explanation of Radio Reception and by Charles William Taussig (1922)
"... types of loose coupler—Principle of the loose coupler— Loose coupler receiving
hook-up without secondary condenser— With secondary condenser—Methods of ..."
6. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"Pass left index distally into the right little-finger loop, hook up from below
the radial little-finger string and return. Pass left thumb distally into the ..."
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