Hook up and Release

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Hook up verb - To come or be together as friends.

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Release is an antonym for hook up in topics: fasten, make secure.

Release verb - To set free (from a state of being held in check).

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Hook up is an antonym for release.

Nearby Words: released, releasing

Brokeback Mountain has a scene with one of the cowboys going to Mexico to anonymously hook up with a local man, presumably to release the stress of having to live in a heterosexual marriage and limit his contact with the other sheep herder to only once a year.

Source: Sex Tourism

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Release and Hook up. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hook_up/release

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