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A few different meanings, so check the situation. (1) A connection between machines or systems, like a 'cable hookup' connecting your TV to the wall. (2) In casual speech, especially about people, a 'hookup' means a short romantic or physical meeting, often just once, with no promise of dating seriously afterward. This second meaning is very casual slang, so be careful using it.
(1) 接線、連接裝置 (2) (口語)一夜情、短暫的親密關係
組成hook (a curved piece of metal or plastic for connecting or catching things) + up
同家族的字
- hookhookup is hook + up
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hookupnoun/ˈhʊkʌp/
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A connection.
- The plumber came to fix the sewer hookup.
- I need to buy some hookup wire.
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slangA brief sexual relationship or encounter.
- He met his two most recent partners at bars, and expressed strong ambivalence and dislike of meeting partners online, but reported half a dozen additional hookups with partners met online.
- It is easy to write off Grindr — a location-based dating application for gay men — as a hookup application because, well, that is what it is. […] Grindr’s main purpose is to facilitate hookups that are “spontaneous and intimate,” he said.
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slangA sexual partner.
- The predominant way of finding a hookup or sexual partner would be going online.
- It could simply be that “gay men are early adopters,” he said. “I joke that the wheel was invented by a gay man so he could get to his hookup faster.”
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。