[Ads-l] hook up

[Wilson Gray]

> Related to transitive “to hook (someone) up (with)”?

Sounds good to me.

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 10:34 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> 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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> > -Mark Twain
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-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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