hookup

noun

1. (attributive, sometimes)A connection.

   “The plumber came to fix the sewer hookup.”

   “I need to buy some hookup wire.”

2. (slang)A 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.”

3. (slang)A 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.””

   “I bought more bungee cords and made my way to my hookup’s house via slower, more manageable back roads.”