[Ads-l] hook up

[Jonathan Lighter]

For more on "hook[-]up," a look at HDAS wouldn't be amiss either.

JL

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 8:28 AM Dave Wilton <dave at wilton.net> wrote:

> Take a look at Green's Dictionary of Slang. Both these senses are much
> older than I ever suspected.
>
> The sexual sense:
>
> to form a relationship with; sexual or otherwise.
>
> 1878–9  [US]    A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 77: Why don’t
> you hook up to her yourself, if you are so stuck on her?
>
> 1900    [US]    A.H. Lewis ‘Garrote’ in Sandburrs 133: She hooks up wit’
> another skate.
>
> And the commercial sense:
>
> to introduce, to bring two parties together in a commercial transaction,
> to connect.
>
> 1945            J.H. Cummings Fatal Pay-off 56: Brandt wondered if the
> Ford could be tabbed. Madden wasn’t sure. ‘Not unless we can hook it up
> with two big, light-haired men.’.
>
> Green's lists a lot of more specific senses.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> On Behalf Of
> Wilson Gray
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2019 12:19 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADS-L] hook up
>
> > 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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