shack up en · VERB
Meanings
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(colloquial) To live together, especially of an unmarried couple.
So I don't believe in alimony, okay, love? / Though I think we'd ought to / Shack up baby, shack up
1980, “Shack Up”, performed by A Certain Ratio:The other rumor flying around thicker 'n flies on a three-day-old carcass is that new redheaded cook, Rory, is shacked up with you.
2011, Pamela Toth, The Mail-Order Mix-Up:The only thing I want to do after the war is marry some girl who's got more money than I have and shack up with lots more pretty girls.
1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 173:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| shacked up | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| shacked up | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| shacks up | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| shacking up | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
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Translations (13)
cs žít na hromádce (to live together, especially when unmarried) · cic táwwa'a (to live together, especially when unmarried) · pl żyć na kocią łapę (to live together, especially when unmarried) · it convivere (to live together, especially when unmarried) · es arrejuntarse (to live together, especially when unmarried) · de in wilder Ehe leben (to live together, especially when unmarried) · gl arrexuntar (to live together, especially when unmarried) · ru сожи́тельствовать (to live together, especially when unmarried) · es amancebarse (to live together, especially when unmarried) · de (mit jemandem) zusammenziehen (to live together, especially when unmarried) · el σπιτώνω (to live together, especially when unmarried) · cmn 姘居 (to live together, especially when unmarried) · it coabitare (to live together, especially when unmarried)