Makeout vs Hookup - What's the difference?
makeout | hookup |
Of, involving, or suited to making out
* {{quote-news, year=1994, date=July 8, author=Albert Williams, title=Dressing Room Divas; Camp Killspree, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=A potentially funny 15-minute skit dragged out to an hour, Killspree spoofs two entertainment genres: teen makeout horror films, with their propensity for shock effects at the expense of plot and character development, and late-night gay plays like the long-running Party (playing right next door), parodied in Killspree's peppy camaraderie, safe-sex sermonizing, gratuitous nudity, and simulated screwing. }}
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 26, author=Lynn Harris, title=Lying and One-Night Stands, work=New York Times
, passage=Sussman’s defense of sluts feels dated (its superb evocation of adolescent makeout sessions notwithstanding); Daphne Merkin’s reflections on the penis, while canny in form, are indulgent in content. }} For the purpose of connecting.
A connection.
A brief sexual relationship or encounter; a fling.
:"The latter participant, for instance, met his two most recent partners at bars, and expressed strong ambivalence and dislike of meeting partners online, but reported half a dozen additional hookups with partners met online."[http://www.policyresourcegroup.com/documents/MSMBaileyNA_2010.pdf]
A sexual partner
:"As a webmaster, yeah, I would have to say that the predominant way of finding a hookup or sexual partner would be going online."[http://www.policyresourcegroup.com/documents/MSMBaileyNA_2010.pdf]
As adjectives the difference between makeout and hookup
is that makeout is of, involving, or suited to making out while hookup is for the purpose of connecting.As a noun hookup is
a connection.makeout
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Adjective
(-)- I need to buy some hookup wire .
Noun
(en noun)- The plumber came to fix the sewer hookup .