shack up

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

shack up (third-person singular simple present shacks up, present participle shacking up, simple past and past participle shacked up)

  1. (colloquial) To live together, especially of an unmarried couple.
    • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 [], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 173:
      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.
    • 1980, “Shack Up”, performed by A Certain Ratio:
      So I don't believe in alimony, okay, love? / Though I think we'd ought to / Shack up baby, shack up
    • 2011, Pamela Toth, The Mail-Order Mix-Up:
      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.

Translations

[edit]

See also

[edit]