shack up

shack up

English

Verb

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

1. (derogatory) 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 1023879857, 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

to live together, especially when unmarried

Chickasaw: táwwa'a Chinese: Mandarin: 姘居 (zh) (pīnjū) Galician: arrexuntar German: in wilder Ehe leben, (mit jemandem) zusammenziehen Greek: σπιτώνω (el) (spitóno) Italian: convivere (it), coabitare (it) Polish: żyć na kocią łapę (pl) (pot.) Russian: сожи́тельствовать (ru) (sožítelʹstvovatʹ) Spanish: arrejuntarse (es), amancebarse (es)

See also

• cohabit
• elope
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