hook-upper

English

Etymology

From hook up +‎ -er.

Noun

hook-upper (plural hook-uppers)

1. (rare) One who hooks up.
   • 2013 December 24, August Brown, “Perfect Strangers: Tinder and 21st Century Fiction”, in Los Angeles Review of Books‎, Los Angeles, Calif., →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 December 2016:

     Fiction has always had a problem keeping up with contemporary tech culture, though. The past year has seen a shift from Facebook to Tinder among young hook-uppers that already rendered [Marie] Calloway’s book [what purpose did i serve in your life] (which is rife with excerpted Facebook chats and photos) a bit quaint in its details.

   • 2015 October 29, SC Student Media, “Don’t Be That Person This Halloween”, in The Springfield Student‎, Springfield, Mass.: Springfield College, archived from the original on 28 September 2020:

     The Sloppy, Public Hook-uppers / Alright, this just looks bad in the first place. As moved as everyone is by the love story unfolding in front of them of two people who just met shoving their Admiral Nelson-laced tongues down each other’s throats, it looks even worse on Halloween, and for one reason: costumes.

   • 2017 July 1, Tara Wills, “The eyes are NOT a window to the soul: I’m not broken, I am asexual”, in Aze‎, archived from the original on 3 November 2024:

     I met some guys online. The usual "hi" messages, the meaningless touristy hook-uppers, the "how can you read if you're blind?" conversation starters, the "yo sexy lady" starters... patience, I told myself.

   • 2023 April 3, Maria Polcari, “How Does Terrible Trash TV Make So Much Money?”, in Weird Marketing Tales‎, archived from the original on 22 April 2023:

     Too Hot to Handle definitely doesn’t beat around the bush with its premise. A bunch of ridiculously attractive serial daters/hook-uppers are thrown onto an island and told to refrain from my form of sexual pleasure of any kind. If they succeed, someone walks away with a whole lot of money. Yup, it gets straight to the point, doesn’t it?

   • 2025 July 5, Austin Ayodele, Monsurat Isiaka Ismail Ayatullah Nasirudeen, “‘I Offered What I Have for What I Want’: A Study of Transactional Hook-Up Practices by Young Females in Nigeria”, in Roberto Refinetti, editor, Sexuality & Culture […]‎, New York, N.Y.: Springer, published 26 July 2025, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 August 2025:

     Others noted that the prevalence of the hook-up culture and the social media content of the lifestyles of hook-uppers prompted their disposition towards sex for money transactions, as they previously offered sex for love.