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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.
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
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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