hooking up
No-strings physical intimacy
Hooking up means connecting or attaching something: Can you help me hook up the trailer?
For electronics, it means establishing connections: We need to hook up the speakers.
In casual speech, hooking up refers to casual sexual encounters, ranging from kissing to intercourse depending on context and speaker: They hooked up at the party last night.
To hook someone up is to provide them with something they need: My friend hooked me up with tickets.
Forceful toss, or tryst
- one-night standCasual sexual encounter
- hookupCasual sexual encounter
- booty callLate-night liaison request
- situationshipUndefined romantic involvement
tryst · liaison · romp · rendezvous · affair · amorous · uncommitted · spontaneous
Joining two parts together
- latchingSecuring with a catch
- claspingHolding something firmly
- clippingPiece cut out
- securingMaking firmly fixed
attaching · coupling · joining · linking · connecting · rigging · tethering · snapping
Building professional relationships
- introductionPreliminary section or presentation
- referralDirecting someone elsewhere
- matchmakingArranging romantic connections
- linkingForming a connection
pairing · setting up · arranging · facilitating · contact · connecting · bringing together · brokering
fling
Forceful toss, or tryst
- one-night standCasual sexual encounter
- hookupCasual sexual encounter
- booty callLate-night liaison request
situationship · tryst · liaison · romp · rendezvous · affair · amorous · uncommitted · spontaneous · fleeting
fastening
Joining two parts together
securing · attaching · coupling · joining · linking · connecting · rigging · tethering · snapping · buckling
networking
Building professional relationships
- introductionPreliminary section or presentation
- referralDirecting someone elsewhere
- matchmakingArranging romantic connections
linking · pairing · setting up · arranging · facilitating · contact · connecting · bringing together · brokering · intermediary
- setupsetting up, installation, assembling, installing, initialization
- relationship statussingle, married, divorced, engaged, separated
- horseplayroughhousing, hijinks, antics, horseplay, clowning around
- dating slangghosting, breadcrumbing, talking, situationship, cuffing
- innuendoinnuendo, sexual innuendo, double entendre, double meaning, implied meaning
hooking upcommitting
Carrying out an act
getting married · marriage · committed relationship · settling down · going steady
hooking upbreaking up
Ending a romantic relationship
disconnecting · unhooking · splitting up · separating · detaching
hooking upabstaining
Voluntarily doing without
isolating · keeping to oneself · staying in · solitude · social withdrawal