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Shack up   Listen
verb
Shack up  v. i.  
1.
To live together in a sexual relationship, without being legally married. (Slang, U. S.)
2.
To live in a cabin, shack, or other crude dwelling. (Slang, U. S.)






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"Shack up" Quotes from Famous Books



... He had kept away from Carr's for nearly five weeks. Neither Sophie nor her father had come to his cabin again. Once or twice he had hailed Carr from a distance. In the height of his loneliness he had traversed the half-mile to Tommy Ashe's shack up Lone Moose, only to find it deserted. He learned later that Lachlan's oldest son and Ashe had gone partners to run a line of traps away to the north of the village. It occurred to Thompson that he might do the same—if—well, ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair



Words linked to "Shack up" :   populate, inhabit, live, dwell



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