hooked up

verb

Definition of hooked upnext
past tense of hook up
as in associated
to come or be together as friends former classmates who hooked up and started a business together

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hooked up
  1. connected
  2. run
  3. joined
  4. ran
  5. collaborated
Verb
  • Federal election rules allow candidates’ campaigns to foot the bill for travel and security expenses that are connected to their official or campaign duties.
    Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The Baltimore Police Department has not confirmed if Sunday’s arrests are connected to Saturday’s armed carjacking.
    Rebecca Pryor, Baltimore Sun, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of connected
Verb
  • Survivors say abandonment creates scars that run deeper and take longer to heal than physical damage.
    Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The Hoosier cabinet made the kitchen easier to navigate and more accessible to middle-class housewives in particular who had largely depended on housekeepers to run their kitchens.
    Michelle Mastro, JSTOR Daily, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of run
Verb
  • One requirement for anyone who has joined the cast, aside from drumming skills, has been expressive eyes and body language that can fill in for the wordlessness.
    Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Dec. 2024
  • By September 1998, the younger David Fink had joined his father and Mellon, first as the president of Perma Treat and then as the executive vice president of Guilford Rail System, according to a clipping from the Boston Globe featured in a Boston & Main Railroad Historical Society’s newsletter.
    Zach Everson, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of joined
Verb
  • Seattle’s offensive line allows a lot of pressure, the team doesn’t run the ball much (or very well) and the quarterback is often in pure passing situations without any misdirection or run threat.
    Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
  • This time, my dog took off and ran into the yard of a house bordering the park.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of ran
Verb
  • For this next-gen chip development, the research team collaborated with Beihang University and Imperial College London.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The company collaborated with GAC, BAIC, Wuling, and FAW to develop these models.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of collaborated
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Thesaurus Entries Near hooked up

hooked

hooked up

hooked up (with)

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