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What Does Hooking Up Mean?

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Definition:

1. Dating someone on a regular basis.

2. Casually dating someone to see if a romantic relationship follows.

3. Starting a relationship with someone.

4. Engaging in physical contact, such as sex.

5. Having non-monogamous sex.

Also Known As: casual dating, crush, date, friends with benefits, go steady, hang out
Alternate Spellings: hook up, hookup, hooked up
Examples:
"I didn't realize the two of them were hooking up."

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