shack (sh k)n. A small, crudely built cabin; a shanty. intr.v. shacked, shack·ing, shacks Idiom: To live or dwell: farm hands shacking in bunkhouses. shack up Slang 1. To sleep together or live in sexual intimacy without being married. 2. To live, room, or stay at a place: I'm shacking up with my cousin till I find a place of my own. [Possibly from American Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli, adobe hut : xámitl, adobe + calli, house, hut.] |
shack up
vb
(intr, adverb; usually foll by with) Slang to live or take up residence, esp with a mistress or lover
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| Verb | 1. | shack up - share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple inhabit, live, populate, dwell - inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods" miscegenate - marry or cohabit with a person of another race |
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