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Definition of Shacked
1. shack [v] - See also: shack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shacked
Literary usage of Shacked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"... if hee once get the start, hee's gone, aud you gone too. The Wandering Jew.
shacked. Rough ; shaggy. West. "Their haire is shacked," Harrison, p. 41. ..."
2. Salopia Antiqua: Or, An Enquiry from Personal Survey Into the 'druidical by Charles Henry Hartshorne (1841)
"shacked, part, past; a term applied to timber. ... as innad lagg'd and shacked,''
that is, a piece of yew that is not warped, naturally cloven, or twisted. ..."
3. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (1888)
"She was in Italy shacked up with some kid named Filippo. And now here's this guy
Winter saying she had guys up there all the time. This Winter's a prince, ..."
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