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Hook up

verb

Connect or link. "Hook up the components of the new sound system"

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"Hook up" Quotes from Famous Books

... got to do now is to hook up our leading-in wire and ground wire and we'll be all set," said Bob. "I've got a fine big table in my bedroom, and I was thinking that that would be a fine place to mount all our things and ...

— The Radio Boys' First Wireless - Or Winning the Ferberton Prize • Allen Chapman

... Liverpool's judgment, when Charles had concluded. "An old granddad of seventy! If he's on his last legs, why in hell did you hook up with him? If there's going to be a famine, and it looks like it, we need every ounce of grub for ourselves. We only ...

— The Red One • Jack London

... last drumful was drying, he got his idea, and took Andy by the shoulder and led him out into the little front hall. "Boy," he said, "you hook up the team and drive like hell out to the ranch and get the camera and all the lenses. And right under the lid of my trunk you'll find a letter file marked Receipts. In the C pocket you'll find the sales slips of camera and so on; you bring them along. And bring my bag and any clean socks and ...

— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower

... Feeney. "I say, Jack! Hello! Hello! Hello, there! Hello! Hello!" Then Feeney pounded the mouthpiece, jerked the receiver hook up and down, yelled at exchange, and worked ...

— The Making of Bobby Burnit - Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man • George Randolph Chester

... a man yet who could give himself to the pleasures of the turf for a long reach of time, and not be battered in morals. They hook up their spanking team, and put on their sporting-cap, and light their cigar, and take the reins, and dash down the road to perdition. The great day at Saratoga, and Long Branch, and Cape May, and nearly all the other watering-places, ...

— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage