hook up

1. 1.

   connect or link

   “hook up the houses to the gas supply line”

   “Hook up the components of the new sound system”

   Broaderattach

Questions about hook up

What does hook up mean?

hook up means "connect or link".

Is hook up a common word?

hook up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.