<p>so I see this term on urbandictionary...</p>
<p>but when people refer to "hooking up" colloquially, does it always mean that they have sex or something? Like, I know that "getting laid" is almost 100% about having sex, but it seems that "hooking up" is more ambiguous</p>
<p>or does it usually refer more to ppl who just hang out? or do something illegal (but not involving sex)?</p>
<p>does it have a different connotation when it's used in HS, as compared to when it's used in college?</p>
<p>most of the time, it depends on context and who is saying it. sometimes it's just for when a pair start dating. other times, it's getting laid.</p>
<p>Its used in a ton of different situations, some making out, oral etc...</p>
<p>Hello IK.</p>
<p>I thought IK was too important for us.</p>
<p>Oh seriously. IK's trying to make a point to me by asking a bunch of CCers the same question.</p>
<p>IK...it means *****ing in our context. College kids do not annotate it as "making out", and it's definitely not when a pair "starts dating". "Hooking up" is purely superficial.</p>
<p>LoL, hello New Zealand mountain parrot!</p>
<p>Some people use "hooking up" to mean kissing.</p>
<p>But those are usually younger kids.</p>
<p>dang u all noticed. :p</p>
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Some people use "hooking up" to mean kissing.</p>
<p>But those are usually younger kids.
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<p>I guess that explains my confusion. I don't think I really heard the word from sources other than junior high students, since I isolated myself from my fellow classmates beginning in 9th grade (and entered college early)</p>
<p>It's something that 99% of those on CC wont have to worry about.</p>
<p>Hooking Up = bam chicka boom boom</p>
<p>Hooking Up = grabbing an ethernet cable, plugging it into the wall, and playing NetHack.</p>
<p>That's the only sort of hooking up worth doing.</p>
<p>^^That also applies to "jacking on." Or "jacking off", or whatever it is.</p>
<p>Are you having fun talking to yourself, Fizix? =)</p>
<p>Hook up = Most cc members don't understand what this word means!</p>
<p>Come on, simfish, you know perfectly well that it doesn't mean people hanging out or doing something illegal.</p>
<p>dude go to urban dictionary, no need to post like this again. its the modern lingo bible.</p>
<p>I use two usernames to make myself feel like less of a loser. :D</p>
<p>I am so shocked that simfish, of all people, misconstrues the definition of "hooking up". I never knew a 3-year CCer would be so ignorant!</p>
<p>But still - one of the UD definitions is related to "doing drugs" with someone - that's illegal</p>
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<p>The fact that you're treating "doing drugs" as an uncommon interpretation of hooking up (you're trying to defend how this particular definition fits) shows that you have some idea of what "hooking up" means.</p>
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The fact that you're treating "doing drugs" as an uncommon interpretation of hooking up (you're trying to defend how this particular definition fits) shows that you have some idea of what "hooking up" means.
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<p>Yes, I have some idea of what it means (however, since I dropped out of the social scene in 9th grade, I only had the middle school definition in mind - some middle schoolers do break laws). But I wanted to clarify it to having a full idea of the connotative nuances of the expression (asking questions like this certainly helps). It helps to go beyond UD, anyhow</p>
<p>But aren't you enrolled in college? If you go to classes, you're still exposed to college-aged people.</p>