hookup

Noun

1. A connection.
   • The plumber came to fix the sewer hookup.
   • I need to buy some hookup wire.
2. 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...

   Synonyms: fling

3. 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.” - 2013 March 10, Jenna Wortham, “How Grindr Is Changing the Way We...
   • I bought more bungee cords and made my way to my hookup’s house via slower, more manageable back roads. - 2015, Tyler Oakley, Binge, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

   Synonyms: bedfellow bedmate fuck hookup lover paramour mate root sex partner sexual partner