[Ads-l] hook up

[Wilson Gray]

Cf. the neo-blaxploitation flick, "I Got the Hook-Up," from 1998.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Got_the_Hook-Up

In the movie, the title is used as the slogan of their sales-pitch by two
street-hustlers who have lucked into a mis-delivered case of brand-new
cellphones. That is, they have the means to provide the boyz in the 'hood
with the ability to _hook up_, in the sense of "to become informed or clued
in; to get hipped to the haps" via (I still say "vie-uh," but, here of
late, "vee-uh" seems to be gaining traction) cellphone.  My WAG is that
this kind of "hook-up," of black origin, is only coincidentally of the same
shape as the older _hook up_ "engage in sex," originally white, but now
universal, as evidenced on Jerry Springer.

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 'To inform; clue in."
>
> Chris Cuomo on CNN: "So hook me up, Fahrenthold. We're always on here
> pumping your reporting. What are you looking at next?"
>
> JL
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