Free
Free verb - To set free (as from slavery or confinement).
Hooked up
Both terms in one sentence
- Perhaps gasoline is also free, but wouldn't it be rather difficult to make the wheels tilt like that and keep the gasoline-powered engine and transmission hooked up, instead of just stripping out all that and attaching electric motors to each wheel?
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As of The Science of Discworld II, Hex has also joined the Playful Hacker ranks, as it's hooked up to the semaphore network, has cracked their operations codes, and can slip messages onto the network for free, passing them off as internal signalling.
Source: Playful Hacker
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