connects

1. 1
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of connect.

   A single hallway connects all the rooms on that floor.

   This adapter connects the older device to a modern port.

   Note

   The verb works both with and without an object. With one, it is the link or the person doing the linking: the hallway connects the rooms, she connects the cable. Without one, it attaches or lands: the plug connects to the port, the punch connects. In that intransitive use, to names the other end. The same spelling is also the slang noun for contacts, and a subject in front marks the verb.

2. 2
   nounslang

   Plural of connect. Slang.

   With connects at every major label, he could get a demo heard within a week.

   Detectives traced the shipment back to two of his connects across the border.

   Note

   Slang pulls this plural two ways: someone's connects may be useful friends in a business or the people who supply them with drugs. The word itself does not separate the two, so the surrounding sentence has to. Connects at a record label are contacts, while connects across the border usually are not. Keep it for informal speech, and use contacts where the register is formal.

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