Usually means: Live together in informal relationship.
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  1. shack up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shack up: Merriam-Webster
  3. shack up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shack up: Vocabulary.com
  5. shack up: Wordnik
  6. shack up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. shack up: Wiktionary
  8. shack up: Dictionary.com
  9. Shack up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. shack up: Rhymezone
  11. shack up: FreeDictionary.org
  12. shack up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. shack up: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. shack up: Legal dictionary

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  1. shack up: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shack-up, shack up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shack up)

▸ verb:  (colloquial) To live together, especially of an unmarried couple.

Similar:
cohabit, shack, bunk up, chum, hang together, bunk together, couple up, butty, connubiate, coinhabit, more...

Adjectives:
butty, shacked up, batch, foster, hind, hench, man, plaything, party, matey, yoked

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Similar:
cohabit, shack, bunk up, chum, hang together, bunk together, couple up, butty, connubiate, coinhabit, more...

Adjectives:
butty, shacked up, batch, foster, hind, hench, man, plaything, party, matey, yoked



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