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Phrase(s): hook someone up (with someone)
Fig. to arrange for someone to go out with someone. • I hooked Alice up with Tom last year, and now they’re getting married., Phrase(s): hook something up
to set something up and get it working. (The object is to be connected to a power supply, electronic network, telephone lines, etc.) • Will it take long to hook the telephone up? • As soon as they hook up the computer to the network, I can e-mail my friends., Phrase(s): hook someone or something up (to someone or something) [and] hook someone or something up (with someone or something)
1. Lit. to attach someone or something to someone or something. • The nurse hooked the patient up to the oxygen tubes. • They hooked up the patient with the tubes.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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1. Assemble or wire a mechanism, as in Dick helped us hook up the stereo system. [1920s] 2. Connect a mechanism with a main source, as in The computer had not yet been booked up to the mainframe. [1920s] 3. hook up with. Form a tie or association, as in She had hooked up with the wrong crowd. [Slang; mid-1900s]
American Heritage Idioms