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shack up (with someone)

Inf. to sleep or live with someone temporarily in a sexual relationship. They shacked up for over a year until her parents found out and stopped sending her money.

See also: shack, up

shack up (with somebody)

(slang)

to live with and have a sexual relationship with someone you are not married to I was surprised to hear you're shacking up with Kathy.

Related vocabulary: set up housekeeping

See also: shack, up

shack up

1. Sleep together or live in sexual intimacy without being married. For example, They had been dating for two months and then decided to shack up. [Slang; first half of 1900s]

2. Stay or reside with, as in I'm shacking up with my cousin till I find a place of my own. [Slang; first half of 1900s]

See also: shack, up

shack up

v. Slang

1. To live, room, or stay at some place: She's shacking up at her cousin's house until she finds a place of her own.

2. To sleep together or live in sexual intimacy with someone without being married: There's a rumor that the professor is shacking up with one of his colleagues. Do you know if they are shacking up together?

See also: shack, up

shack up

verb

See shack up with someone

See also: shack, up

shack up

Slang

1. To live together and have sexual relations 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.

See also: shack, up