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Definition of Shack up

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

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Shack Up

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shackling shacko shackoes shackos shacks shack up (current term) shad shad shad-flower shad-waiter

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Literary usage of Shack up

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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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