"hook up with"

[Jonathan Lighter]

As HDAS shows, "hook up with" originally meant simply to meet, join with,
etc.

Nowadays, of course, that  immediately leads to wild sex, but in the past
it didn't.

JL

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:55 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Facebook poke ==> 'hello' > 'wanna fuck?'. I think I'm in a sex offender
> database for naively Facebook poking too many of my students. Social media
> have made pejoration accelerate to warp speed 10.  :(
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