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So I was talking with my friend the other day and he said that he and his girlfriend made out for the first time. And what I learned from this conversation is that we had very very different definitions of making out and hooking up.

See for me, making out is anything about the waist. If it's above the waist and more than your basic just lips kissing, it's making out.

but hooking up is all that plus below the waist stuff- handjobs, oral, and so on. also sex. But not all hooking up has to be what one defines as sex. So, for me hooking up is anything involving genitals.

For him (he didnt really have a definition for hooking up) making out was just kissing. i asked him what everything else was and he said he didn't know.

So what are your definitions for making out and hooking up?

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I see "making out" as more or less synonymous with French kissing. Having hands wander around the upper body area pretty much comes with that naturally?

I don't use the term "hooking up"... and for me, any interaction between two or more person that involves at least one person's genitals and is aiming for stimulation/pleasure simply is called sex. E.g., someone givng another person a one-sided handjob, still rates as sex, IMO. (Obvious example for me, as it happens to be the only form of sex I, personally, could ever see myself being okay and going along with.)

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Anime Pancake

Yeah me too, I see making out as kissing with the tongue.

I never use the term hooking up, personally.

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The way I saw it, 'making out' was, shall we say, penetrative kissing, and 'hooking up' was just another word for having sex of one sort or another. Then again, nobody I knew in real life really used 'hooking up', but that might just be because I just don't tend to talk about sex when I'm around other people, and so don't get exposed as much to the lingo. I ain't the expert here.

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For me, I always thought of making out as kissing with tongue, and maybe neck kissing as well?

And like everyone else here, I don't ever use the phrase hooking up, but I think of that as just having some kind of sex with another person. I also kinda associate it with being a sorta no strings attached type thing, even though it really doesn't have to be.

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Ummm personally I think making out is kissing, but more deep, like french kissing. If it'S shallow it's only kissing to me. And hooking up is getting together with someone, even someone random, and have some sort of sexual acivity

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I've always thought of making out as basically an extended session involving kissing (tongue or no tongue, but usually with), and some caressing, stopping short of 'dry humping' or fondling. Generally clothes are on.

Hooking up I see as a term used to describe a meeting strictly for the purpose of having sex.

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butterflydreams

I've heard people use both terms for just about everything under the sun. I'm sure urbandictionary.com has a definitive "definition", but even then, can we trust that?

I personally define making out as something I'm none too interested in, but also "heavy" kissing and just kissing. Anything more than what the French might scoff at were you to greet someone familiar that way.

I always understood "hooking up" to mean sex, but I'm almost positive that's not a completely done deal. I wish we didn't have to have euphemisms for this stuff. It's confusing. It's like "slept with" when clearly, the understanding is that you weren't sleeping all that time if at all. Is saying "we had sex" so darn hard?

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Wow.

Wasn't hooking up getting to a meeting/date? Like "I will hook you up with that chick" or something?

And making out for me was kinda like going to the actual meeting/date.

I used a lot the "hook up" in one of my previous jobs when we were about to arrange meetings or something the like.

We used "make out" in a slightly different context tho', like what came to happen, what was the result of the situation.

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Mycroft is Yourcroft

I always saw the two as interchangeable with french kissing, though 'hooking up' could be used for sex too.

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thatotherguy57

"Making out" has always been synonymous with French kissing for a period of a few minutes to me.

"Hooking up" is a term that I've always understood to mean a one night stand or casual sex, though I have heard it used in the context of meeting a potential romantic/sexual interest face to face for the first time, but nowhere near as much.

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WhenSummersGone

Making out to me means French kissing and hands all over. Hooking up is just a way to say casual sex or a one night stand. Hooking up can lead to more but it usually doesn't. There's also hanging out or meeting up which to me is just platonic or business and has nothing to do with sex or romance.

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I always got making out meaning passionate open-mouth kissing, with or without tongue, with or without gettin' handsy, with or without being horizontal.

Hooking up depends on the context. I'm in college so I know when people say they "hooked up" with a guy the night before that they had sex with them, as probably a one time thing. But I've generally understood it to mean any sort of one-time rendezvous...? Which could just mean going to someone's house to make out. But eh.

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I think my definitions of the terms are pretty similar to yours.

Kissing is, well, kissing. That can mean a simple peck on the lips, or a really deep, long kiss. But basically to me kissing stays above the neck, although your hands might wander a bit.

Making out is when it becomes more than just kissing. One, the kisses go other places, neck and downward. Groping--if only on a really light level--becomes involved. But it is all above the waist, for the most part. It certainly doesn't result in removal of pants/skirt or underwear, or even touching the genital areas through or underneath the clothing.

A hook-up is anything that involves genitals in any way, handjob, blowjob, other forms of oral, dry humping, intercourse, ect. But a hook-up to me is a more casual thing. That could mean a one time thing, or something that may happen in the future but isn't a specified thing, like booty-calls to me are more of a hook-up thing. A hook-up is sex or sexual acts, but casual.

Then there is legit having sex with someone in a more partnership setting. A partnership setting could be a spouse, a romantic partner (even if a more casual newer romantic partner), or a platonic partnership like sex buddies/friends. **shrugs**

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I've always viewed making out as deeper kissing, while hooking up involves a one-night stand sort of thing.

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Making out = tounge.

Hooking up = one night stand.

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LuckyOptimist

I've always been sure that making out was like french kissing. Hooking up typically implies sex or a one night stand, although sometimes people say it casually and may not mean that.

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I see making out as tongue-kissing, and hooking up as a one-night stand.

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