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Originally Posted by Gusteau
So hooking up is pretty broad. When I was in high school making out and hooking up were the same thing. Afterwards that definition changed. I haven't heard any post-collegiate person refer to hooking up as making out before Jess and Tim's use of it.
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Originally Posted by WhiteRose1912
For me, it has always referred to having some kind of sex with another person. Using "hooking up" when you really mean "making out" would be exaggerating.
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I think this is more of a collegiate term for making out. That's the term we used in college in the '80s and that's the term they use at my daughter's school now. She thought it meant sex, too, and was really aghast at the open talk about lots of people "hooking up" at parties, etc. Then her roommate told her the term was for making out, and she felt relieved that she wasn't going to an orgy school!