Hooking (2024)

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What does hooking mean slang? ›

Hooking up means sexual activity. Kissing (or making-out) is not hooking up. Any type of oral, vagin*l or anal sex is considered hooking up. One night stand involving any form of sex (oral, vagin*l, anal, etc).

This is called Hooking—the process by which an application intercepts an API call between two other applications. In the example above, the intercepting function (called a hook procedure) altered the data passed onto the recipient (the text editor), but that is not always the case.

Slang. to work as a prostitute.

verb. hooked; hooking; hooks. transitive verb. : to form into a hook : crook. : to seize or make fast by or as if by a hook.

hookup (n.)

also hook-up, "connection," 1903, from verbal phrase hook up, which is attested from 1825 in reference to yarn; 1925 as "establish a link with." The noun is from 1922 of radio sets, later of television broadcasts. Modern slang verbal sense of "to meet for sex" is attested by 2003.

The simple requests a staff member complies with are the hook. Once hooked the inmate uses these as bargaining chips to get the officer to do bigger and better things: bring in cell phones, drugs or get involved in a sexual relationship.

BUT, when you are "Hooked" with difficult thoughts and feelings, you get "Unfocused", "Dis-engaged" and "Distracted"! AND, when you do things in an "Unfocused", "Disengaged" and "Distracted" way, you will do/perform them poorly. You will be unable to enjoy your activities and you will feel dissatisfied.

The Hooked Model is a way of describing a user's interactions with a product as they pass through four phases: a trigger to begin using the product, an action to satisfy the trigger, a variable reward for the action, and some type of investment that, ultimately, makes the product more valuable to the user.

A hook procedure can act on each event it receives, and then modify or discard the event. DLL injection is a technique used for running code within the address space of another process by forcing it to load a dynamic-link library.

The hook model of behavioral design is a framework for designing addictive products. It is closely related to the habit loop. It describes a cyclical, four stage process for designing addictive products. The stages are: trigger, action, variable reward and investment.

What is a hook guy? ›

The Hook, or the Hookman, is an urban legend about a killer with a pirate-like hook for a hand attacking a couple in a parked car. In many versions of the story, the killer is typically portrayed as a faceless, silhouetted old man wearing a raincoat and rain hat that conceals most of his features, especially his face.

We latch or 'hook' ourselves onto something and then based on being attracted to it, we correlate it to the rest of the person and assume that they will possess other qualities and characteristics that someone we believe is 'right' for us will possess.

adjective. : resembling a hook especially in recurved form or in ability to grasp and hold.

You can also start by asking her what she's looking for. Try something along the lines of: “I've been having a lot of fun and I'm just wondering what you're looking for out of this.” Let her know that you don't need an answer immediately, but that you'd like to talk about it before this goes too far.

Hooking up is nothing new. Most young adult sex is reasonably responsible—unless the partners drink too much. It's a normal part of growing up and it rarely causes psychological damage. Intercourse is the exception, not the rule.

Hooking up is engaged in for the instant gratification for sex, pleasure, a feeling of being loved, an emotional feeling of being adhered to, the thought of the potential of the hookup developing into something less casual, and many more reasons.

The Three Finger Salute is used by District 12 residents when they have to say thanks or just to show that the person is loved and respected by them.