Definition of Shack up

1. Verb. Share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple.

Exact synonyms: Cohabit, Live Together
Generic synonyms: Dwell, Inhabit, Live, Populate
Specialized synonyms: Miscegenate
Derivative terms: Cohabitation

Definition of Shack up

1. Verb. (idiomatic pejorative) To live together, especially of an unmarried couple. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shack Up

shabbinesses
shabble
shabbles
shabboses
shabby
shabby-genteel
shabeen
shabeens
shabono
shabonos
shabrack
shabracks
shabu
shabynite
shack
shack up
shacked
shacked up
shacking
shacking up
shackle
shacklebone
shacklebones
shackled
shackler
shacklers
shackles
shacklike
shackling
shacklock

Literary usage of Shack up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Those Times and These by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1917)
"It's that shack up back of the county poor farm that the supervisors used for a pest house the time the smallpox broke out. That there place is consider'bly ..."

2. The Marshall Plan Summer: An Eyewitness Report on Europe and the Russians in by Thomas Andrew Bailey (1977)
"He also wrote that in Bari, near the heel of the Italian boot, "the inflated price for an overnight shack-up with a woman reached $35.00," which was quite a ..."

3. In the Land of the Filipino by Ralph Kent Buckland (1912)
"After supper, Nick, as we came to call him for short, had a dance on hand in some little bamboo shack up the street; so, up the street, we all went and ..."

4. The Girl at the Halfway House: A Story of the Plains by Emerson Hough (1900)
"Ain't got his shack up yet. But say, that's a full mile from yer. You ain't goin' to walk a mile, are you ? " " I've walked a good many thousand miles," ..."

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