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Difference between Hook someone up and Hook up with someone

hook someone up

1. (coll.) establish an intimate relationship between two people; supply a person with a date:

  • I’ve had some of the worst dates due to my friends trying to hook me.

2. (Police) take a person into custody (reference being to the act of handcuffing):

  • Tags on the car are expired, let’s go ahead and hook him up.

Note: The expression does not correlate in meaning with the phrase get one’s hooks into someone—(coll.)

1. get control or influence over a person:

  • The rival VHS video format has really got its hooks into the American consumer.

2. (of a woman) try hard to gain the affections of a man (used showing disapproval):

  • Ramona jealously guards her current boyfriend so Vicki doesn’t get her hooks into him.

hook up with someone—(coll., also: get hooked up with someone)

1. meet smb. and spend time together:

  • I was traveling alone, but then I hooked up with another woman about my age.

2. become romantically or sexually involved with a person:

  • I was a freshman in high school and hooked up with this guy on the first day.