SHACK UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shack up mean? 

• SHACK UP (verb)
  The verb SHACK UP has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SHACK UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHACK UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

cohabit; live together; shack up

Hypernyms (to "shack up" is one way to...):

dwell; inhabit; live; populate (be an inhabitant of or reside in)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shack up"):

miscegenate (marry or cohabit with a person of another race)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP