[Ads-l] hook up

[Laurence Horn]

Related to transitive “to hook (someone) up (with)”?  E.g., from Googling,

Can you hook me up with {Pandora/some weed/a good cardiologist/some free concert tickets}?

LH


> On Oct 24, 2019, at 9:48 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> 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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